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Gestalt psychology
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From: A Dictionary of Psychology
Date: 20010101
Author:ANDREW M. COLMAN
Gestalt psychology n.
A school of psychology concerned largely with emergent Gestalt phenomena in perception. Its forerunners were the German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), the Austrian physicist, philosopher, and psychologist Ernst Mach (1838–1916), and especially the German philosopher Christian von Ehrenfels (1859–1932), but the emergence of the school is usually traced to 1912 and the publication of a seminal article on apparent movement by the German psychologist Max Wertheimer (1880–1943). The school was transplanted to the US ...Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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