This school's name was coined by Christian von Ehrenfels. This school believes in the "common fate" principle and had its ideas extended to a school of therapy by Fritz Perls.
This school's name was coined by Christian von Ehrenfels. This school believes in the "common fate" principle and had its ideas extended to a school of therapy by Fritz Perls. Its theories, which were also applied to behavioral science by Kurt Lewin (luh-VEEN), are embodied in its fundamental law of "clarity" or "pragnanz." This school originally investigated why a light on a series of bulbs appears to be "moving," calling that the phi phenomenon, and was led by Kurt Koffka, Wolfgang Kohler, and Max Wertheimer (VAIRT-high-mer). For 10 points, identify this school of psychology which theorized that the brain makes a "completion" of all sensory stimuli and is named after the German word for "whole."
This school's name was coined by Christian von Ehrenfels. This school believes in the "common fate" principle and had its ideas extended to a school of therapy by Fritz Perls.
{Gestalt} psychology