PSY 4130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Neural Oscillation, Kurt Koffka, Gestalt Psychology

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 4130
• Professor: Shirley Griffith

Document Summary

In uenced by kant (pieces organized meaningfully; faculties of the mind), mach (physics), as well as ehrenfels and brentano (one cannot experience a melody by attending to individual notes) The americans had a common misconception that gestalt psychology was only perception. Phi phenomenon; the illusion that light is moving from one location to another (caused by ashing two lights on and off at a certain rate) Studied under kulpe, supervised koffka and kohler. Productive thinking; present situation as a whole vs. trial / error: whole problem has to dominate its parts (top-down analysis) Considered to be the most inventive; studied with stumpf. What he published led to the thought that gestalt only deals with perception: the truth was that they were interested in many more philosophical issues such as learning thinking, development, physiology, etc. Used an old german legend to illustrate the differences between the geographic and behavioural environment. Observed chimpanzees in tenerife/british shipping activity for the germans (speculated)