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Wolfgang Köhler (January 21, 1887, Reval (now Tallinn), Estonia – June 11, 1967, New Hampshire) was a German Gestalt psychologist. In 1909 he received his PhD from the University of Berlin. He became an assistant at the Psychological Institute in Frankfurt, where he worked with Max Wertheimer and Kurt Koffka.
From 1913 to 1920 he worked at the Anthropoid Station at Tenerife in the Canary Islands. There he wrote his book Mentality of Apes.
From 1922 until 1935 he was chair and director of the psychology institute at the University of Berlin. In 1929 he wrote his book Gestalt Psychology.
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ah! a Psicologia da Gestalt por um dos seus fundadores e principais autores, Wolfgang Köhler : http://bit.ly/8tvRLe
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ah! a Psicologia da Gestalt por um dos seus fundadores e principais autores, Wolfgang Köhler : http://bit.ly/8tvRLe
E.H. Luchins: Isomorphism in Gestalt theory - Comparison of Wertheimer's and Koehler's concepts; by Abraham S. Luchins and Edith H. Luchins (1999)
Introduction to Wolfgang Kohler: Mentality of Apes - Excerpted from Wolfgang's Kohler's book The Mentality of Apes (1925).
Kohler's objections to Thorndike's Puzzle Box approach - Excerpted from Wolfgang's Kohler's book The Mentality of Apes (1925).
Kohler's Work on Insight Learning - brief excerpt on Kohler's research from the book: The Animal Mind by J.L Gould C. G. Gould
Wolfgang Köhler - Short bio and suggestions for further information.
Wolfgang Köhler: (1929): An old pseudoproblem - Wolfgang Kohler, one of the founders of Gestalt psychology, explicates the epistemological position of Gestalt psychology in this article
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