Reaction Paper on Group Dynamics
* What is Gestalt Psychology? * 20th century * German: “essence or shape of an entity’s complete form” * Berlin school: is a theory of mind and brain * Modern study of perception(visual) * describe how people organize visual elements into groups or “unified wholes” when certain principles are applied. * Operational Principle of Gestalt psychology: Brain is holistic, parallel and analog with self organizing tendencies.
Precursor:
* Christian Von Ehrenfels * David Hume * Johann Wolfgang GESTALT * Immanuel Kant * David Hartley THEORY * Ernst Mach
MAJOR GESTALT PSYCHOLOGIST: * Kurt Koffka * Max Wertheimer * Wolfgang Kohler * Max Wertheimer * founder of "Gestalt Psychology“ * He was born in Prague on April 15, 1880. * Central ideas: wholeness, interdependence, contexts, the field. Rather than things "being made of" their parts. Compare an engine to the collection of parts that make it up. The whole is different from the sum of its parts. (Not "greater than.") * In 1910, he went to the University of Frankfurt’s Psychological Institute. While on vacation that same year, he became interested in the perceptions he experienced on a train. While stopped at the station, he bought a toy stroboscope -- a spinning drum with slots to look through and pictures on the inside, sort of a primitive movie machine or sophisticated flip book * Wolfgang Köhler * Born January 21, 1887, in Reval, Estonia. He received his PhD in 1908 from the University of Berlin. He then became an assistant at the Psychological Institute in Frankfurt, where he met and worked with Max Wertheimer. * In 1917, he wrote his most famous book, Mentality of Apes. * Animals when faced with problem-solving situations behave much more meaningfully than behaviorists say. From Koher's point of view, the Ape is sitting in a
Precursor:
* Christian Von Ehrenfels * David Hume * Johann Wolfgang GESTALT * Immanuel Kant * David Hartley THEORY * Ernst Mach
MAJOR GESTALT PSYCHOLOGIST: * Kurt Koffka * Max Wertheimer * Wolfgang Kohler * Max Wertheimer * founder of "Gestalt Psychology“ * He was born in Prague on April 15, 1880. * Central ideas: wholeness, interdependence, contexts, the field. Rather than things "being made of" their parts. Compare an engine to the collection of parts that make it up. The whole is different from the sum of its parts. (Not "greater than.") * In 1910, he went to the University of Frankfurt’s Psychological Institute. While on vacation that same year, he became interested in the perceptions he experienced on a train. While stopped at the station, he bought a toy stroboscope -- a spinning drum with slots to look through and pictures on the inside, sort of a primitive movie machine or sophisticated flip book * Wolfgang Köhler * Born January 21, 1887, in Reval, Estonia. He received his PhD in 1908 from the University of Berlin. He then became an assistant at the Psychological Institute in Frankfurt, where he met and worked with Max Wertheimer. * In 1917, he wrote his most famous book, Mentality of Apes. * Animals when faced with problem-solving situations behave much more meaningfully than behaviorists say. From Koher's point of view, the Ape is sitting in a