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Kurt Koffka Psicólogo estadounidense de origen alemán Kurt Koffka nació el 18 de marzo de 1886 en Berlín. Cursó estudios en la universidad de esta ciudad. Con Wolfgang Köhler y Max Wertheimer realizó trabajos en el desarrollo de la psicología de la Gestalt.
Born: March 18, 1886; Died: November 22, 1941. Koffka’s first encounter with philosophy and psychology was via Alois Riehl at the University of Berlin. After a year in Edinburgh, which confirmed Koffka in his Anglophilia, he returned and concentrated on psychology, obtaining the doctorate in 1908 under Carl Stumpf with a dissertation on ...
KOFFKA, KURT (1886 – 1941). Kurt Koffka, one of the three founders of the Gestalt movement in psychology, was born in Berlin.In 1903 he went to the university there to study philosophy, and he is said to have had a special interest in Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Nietzsche at that time. In 1904 he moved to Edinburgh, and in the next few years his interest in psychology became increasingly strong.
Koffka desempeñó un papel fundamental en el desarrollo de la teoría de la Gestalt. Aunque es difícil atribuir aspectos particulares de la teoría a cada uno de los cofundadores, Koffka se destacó por su enfoque empírico y su aplicación sistemática de los principios gestálticos en sus obras más conocidas, el crecimiento de la mente (1921) y principios de la psicología gestáltica (1935).
Koffka, with Wertheimer and Köhler, started the Gestalt movement in continuation of the revolt against Wundtian psychology started by the Würzburg school. His three major reforms were: (1) to replace an atomistic interpretation of human experience with one in which the primary data are structures or Gestalten, (2) to correlate stimuli with these perceptual structures rather than with ...
University of Missouri–St. Louis. Max Wertheimer (1880–1943), Kurt Koffka (1886–1941), and Wolfgang Kohler (1887–1967) were three German psy- chologists who immigrated to the United States in the early twentieth century to escape Nazi Germany. These men are credited with introducing psychologists in the United States to various Gestalt ...
Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka, and Wolfgang Köhler founded Gestalt psychology in the early 20th century.: 113–116 The dominant view in psychology at the time was structuralism, exemplified by the work of Hermann von Helmholtz, Wilhelm Wundt, and Edward B. Titchener.: 3 Structuralism was rooted firmly in British empiricism: 3 and was based on three closely interrelated theories:
