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Koffka, Kurt |
Worked with Wertheimer on his early perception experiments. Koffka is considered cofounder of Gestalt psych |
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Behavioral environment |
according to Koffka, subjective reality |
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geographical reality |
koffka: physical reality |
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Wertheimer, Max |
founded the school of Gestalt psych with his paper in 1912 on phi phenomenon |
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phi phenomenon |
illusion of light moving from one location to another |
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Gestalt |
meaning configuration, pattern, or whole |
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Lewin |
Gestaltist, sought to explain human behavior in terms of the totality of influences acting on people rather than in terms of the manifestation of inner essences. Lewin was mainly responsible for applying Gestalt principles to the topics of motivation and group dynamics. |
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group dynamics |
Lewin's extension of gestalt principles to the study of group behavior |
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Life space |
totality of psychological facts that exist in one's awareness at any given moment |
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phenomenology |
study of intact, meaningful mental phenomena |
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transposition |
application of principle learned in one learning or problem solving situation to another similar situation |
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Zeigarnik effect |
tendency to remember uncompleted tasks longer than completed ones |
