1. The Scholarly Mind of Wolfgang Kohler
It discusses the reductionist ideologies of structuralism and behaviorism. ... This type of psychology began as a rejection of Wundt and Titchener's structuralism theories of perception. Their theory expressed the belief that experiences were "reduced to individual parts, and against behaviorism's reduction of experiences to simple stimulus-response reflexes" (Dahl, 2005). Kohler and his colleagues felt that the creation of Gestalt psychology was a revolution of sorts against the other German psychologies such as structuralism, functionalism, and psychoanalysis. They were e...
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