Kurt Koffka (March 12, 1886 – November 22, 1941) was a German psychologist and professor. He was born and educated in Berlin, Germany; he died in Northampton...
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Kurt Koffka (1886, Berlin – 1941, Northampton, Massachusetts), Jewish German psychologist Friedrich Koffka (1888, Berlin – 1951, London), German jurist...
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The Kurt-Koffka Medal, Kurt Koffka Medal, Kurt Koffka Award, or Koffka Prize is an annual, international award bestowed by Giessen University's Department...
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German psychologist and phenomenologist who, like Max Wertheimer and Kurt Koffka, contributed to the creation of Gestalt psychology. During the Nazi regime...
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originator of Gestalt psychology. Noted members include Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka, and Wolfgang Köhler. Stumpf founded the Berlin Laboratory of Experimental...
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heritage. His father, Emil Koffka, was a lawyer, and his older brother was the psychologist Kurt Koffka. Friedrich Koffka studied law at the University...
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Kurt Lewin (/lɛˈviːn/ lə-VEEN; 9 September 1890 – 12 February 1947) was a German-American psychologist, known as one of the modern pioneers of social,...
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19th to early 20th century with Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Köhler, and Kurt Koffka in Germany. With more than 100 years of research on the matter there...
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who was one of the three founders of Gestalt psychology, along with Kurt Koffka and Wolfgang Köhler. He is known for his book, Productive Thinking, and...
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Gustav Jung Donald D. Hoffman Franz Brentano Gustav Fechner Julian Jaynes Kurt Koffka Max Wertheimer Sigmund Freud Wilhelm Wundt William James Wolfgang Köhler...
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which is only peripherally linked to Gestalt psychology. Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka, and Wolfgang Köhler founded Gestalt psychology in the early 20th century...
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Philip Johnson-Laird Daniel Kahneman Annette Karmiloff-Smith George Kelly Kurt Koffka Wolfgang Köhler Stephen Kosslyn Robert L. Leahy Alan M. Leslie Elizabeth...
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professor of history Karen Klinger, rower and Smith crew head coach Kurt Koffka, psychologist G. E. Moore, professor of philosophy (1940-1941) Barry...
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and subsequent experiments by Kurt Koffka (who had been one of Wertheimer's test subjects). Kenkel, a co-worker of Koffka, gave the optimal illusion of...
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to the Gestalt-Theorie" by Kurt Koffka (1922). Classics in the History of Psychology (http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Koffka/Perception/intro.htm). Green...
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Haitian Vodou, symbolist poetry and gestalt psychology (as a student of Kurt Koffka) in a series of perceptual, black-and-white short films. Using editing...
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the Gestalt school was formed by Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Köhler, and Kurt Koffka. The word "gestalt" is a German word translated to English as "pattern"...
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his subjects (who happened to be his colleagues Wolfgang Köhler and Kurt Koffka) reported seeing pure "objectless" motion. However, it turns out to be...
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Berlin school of Gestalt theory, Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Köhler and Kurt Koffka. Metzger became Max Wertheimer's assistant in Frankfurt/Main in the 1930s...
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Gurwitsch and became the head of the Berlin School (Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka, Wolfgang Köhler) Edmund Husserl (Vienna, 1884–1886), founded the phenomenological...
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figure. Gestalt psychologists included Wolfgang Koehler, Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka. Koehler claimed the perceptual fields corresponded to electrical fields...
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the Gestalt psychologist Kurt Koffka. Although Gibson did not agree with Gestalt psychology, he nevertheless agreed with Koffka's belief that the primary...
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Gustav Jung Donald D. Hoffman Franz Brentano Gustav Fechner Julian Jaynes Kurt Koffka Max Wertheimer Sigmund Freud Wilhelm Wundt William James Wolfgang Köhler...
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English translation Edited by Willis D. Ellis; with an introduction by Kurt Koffka. (1997). A source book of Gestalt psychology, xiv, 403 p. : ill.; 22 cmHighland...
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Head, Charles Scott Sherrington 1940 Georges Dumas, Beatrice Edgell, Kurt Koffka, Carl Emil Seashore In 1946 all surviving honorary members were made...
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systemizing the influences of the Gestalt theory (Aron Gurwitsch and Kurt Koffka), the sociology of knowledge (Karl Mannheim, Alfred Schütz, Thomas Luckmann...
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forgetting. In the early 20th century, Wolfgang Kohler, Max Wertheimer, and Kurt Koffka co-founded the school of Gestalt psychology of Fritz Perls. The approach...
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collaborative and cooperative practice in business, science, and education. Kurt Koffka, one of the founders of the gestalt school of psychology, proposed that...
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Medal for Excellence in Vision Science. In 2022, Adelson received the Kurt Koffka Medal for "advancing the fields of perception or developmental psychology...
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1974. The co-founders of the journal were Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka, Wolfgang Köhler, Kurt Goldstein, and Hans Walter Gruhle. The journal went on to...
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