PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Kurt Koffka, Ernst Mach, Gestalt Therapy
8 Dec 2018
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Key theorists: max wertheimer was one of the three founders of gestalt psychology, he was extremely influential, kurt koffka is a german psychologist and the cofounder of the gestalt school of psychology. View on behavior: an individual experiences things as a whole. The whole is greater than the sum of parts; behavior is determined by the location of the part-processes by intrinsic nature of the whole. Key terms and concepts: phenomenology: the science of phenomena as distinct from the nature of being. Concentrates on the study of consciousness and the objects of direct experience: dialogue: the relationship between therapist and client and the perspective that they establish. Experiments/theories: field theory: exploration method that describes a focusing on a single piece rather than an event that expresses the concept of a class. Law of perceptual organization: the human brain fills in missing information (perception).
