Max Wertheimer Productive Thinking

Author : Max Wertheimer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030360634

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Max Wertheimer Productive Thinking by Max Wertheimer Pdf

Max Wertheimer (1880-1943), a pioneer of 20th-century psychology, had a major influence on the development of cognitive psychology, especially the psychology of perception and of productive thinking. His work "Productive Thinking" (1945), written in New York, is regarded as a milestone in creativity research. Consisting of many examples of creative thought processes - from geometric tasks to socio-psychologically relevant conflict resolutions to the development of Einstein's theory of relativity - the book leads the reader through a multi-faceted body of thought in the psychology of thinking. Only a few texts in psychology have remained significant even after a period of three quarters of a century - Max Wertheimer's Productive Thinking is such an exception. This book, which also presents an exposition of Gestalt psychology, highlights the "productive" (insightful) versus automatic (unreflected) thought processes for many areas of life. In addition to examples from school teaching, the chapter on the emergence of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity is of lasting interest to today's generation of psychologists, pedagogues, brain researchers, neuroscientists and philosophers. Wertheimer had the unique opportunity to analyze Einstein's thinking in direct conversation. An introductory commentary by Viktor Sarris for this new edition of the first publication of Productive Thinking in 1945 offers a detailed account of the genesis and reception of Wertheimer's work.

Author : Max Wertheimer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Gestalt psychology
ISBN : PSU:000000402125

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Productive Thinking by Max Wertheimer Pdf

Author : Michael Wertheimer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781351506465

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Max Wertheimer and Gestalt Theory by Michael Wertheimer Pdf

The ideas of Max Wertheimer (1880-1943), a founder of Gestalt theory, are discussed in almost all general books on the history of psychology and in most introductory textbooks on psychology. This intellectual biography of Wertheimer is the first book-length treatment of a scholar whose ideas are recognized as of central importance to fields as varied as social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, problem solving, art, and visual neuroscience. King and Wertheimer trace the origins of Gestalt thought, demonstrating its continuing importance in fifteen chapters and several supplements to these chapters. They begin by reviewing Wertheimer's ancestry, family, childhood in central Europe, and his formal education. They elaborate on his activities during the period in which he developed the ideas that were later to become central to Gestalt psychology, documenting the formal emergence of this school of thought and tracing its development during World War I. The maturation of the Gestalt school at the University of Berlin during 1922-1929 is discussed in detail. Wertheimer's everyday life in America during his last decade is well documented, based in part on his son's recollections. The early reception of Gestalt theory in the United States is examined, with extensive references to articles in professional journals and periodicals. Wertheimer's relationships and interaction with three prominent psychologists of the time, Edwin Boring, Clark Hull, and Alexander Luria, are discussed based on previously unpublished correspondence. The final chapters discuss Wertheimer's essays on democracy, freedom, ethics, and truth, and detail personal challenges Wertheimer faced during his last years. His major work, published after his death, is Productive Thinking. Its reception is examined, and a concluding chapter considers recent responses to Max Wertheimer and Gestalt theory. This intellectual biography will be of interest to psychologists and readers inte

Author : Max Wertheimer
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015003835280

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Productive Thinking by Max Wertheimer Pdf

Author : Jan Zwicky
Publisher : Brush Education
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781550595659

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Wisdom & Metaphor by Jan Zwicky Pdf

In the foreword to Wisdom & Metaphor, Jan Zwicky observes that “those who think metaphorically are enabled to think truly, because the shape of their thinking echoes the shape of the world.” Wisdom & Metaphor explores the ways we come to understand the world through analogical structures, and the relation of this form of knowing to conventional epistemology and ontology. Zwicky uses the nature of the book itself, with its facing pages, to create resonant structures of aphorism and quotation which allow the reader to experience the kind of thinking she describes. The author’s wide-ranging influences, coupled with an understated, largely spatial, style of discourse, make this a remarkably original approach to long-standing questions about meaning and language. It offers a unique and compelling argument for the fundamental importance of metaphor to philosophy.

Author : Rudolf Arnheim
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520018710

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Visual Thinking by Rudolf Arnheim Pdf

The 35th anniversary of this classic of art theory.

Author : Max Wertheimer
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780262017466

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On Perceived Motion and Figural Organization by Max Wertheimer Pdf

This work by and about Max Wertheimer collects together new translations of his two most important articles and places them in both historical and contemporary contexts with the addition of essays by Michael Wertheimer ... [et al.]

Author : Irvin Rock,Irvin Rock - DECEASED
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317784586

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The Legacy of Solomon Asch by Irvin Rock,Irvin Rock - DECEASED Pdf

This volume honors Solomon Asch, a pioneer in social psychology whose experiments in this field are considered classic. Asch has made important contributions to the fields of memory, learning and thinking, and perception along with extending Gestalt theories to social psychology research. Former students and colleagues honor Asch with essays that either expand on his research or describe original research on new topics of related interest. An interesting and informative text for faculty and researchers in the fields of cognition and perception as well as social, experimental, and personality psychology.

Author : Robert Root-Bernstein,Michèle Root-Bernstein
Publisher : HMH
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780547525891

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Sparks of Genius by Robert Root-Bernstein,Michèle Root-Bernstein Pdf

Discover the cognitive tools that lead to creative thinking and problem-solving with this “well-written and easy-to-follow” guide (Library Journal). Explore the “thinking tools” of extraordinary people, from Albert Einstein and Jane Goodall to Mozart and Virginia Woolf, and learn how you can practice the same imaginative skills to become your creative best. With engaging narratives and examples, Robert and Michèle Root-Bernstein investigate cognitive tools such as observing, recognizing patterns, modeling, playing, and more. Sparks of Genius is “a clever, detailed and demanding fitness program for the creative mind” and a groundbreaking guidebook for anyone interested in imaginative thinking, lifelong learning, and transdisciplinary education (Kirkus Reviews). “How different the painter at the easel and the physicist in the laboratory! Yet the Root-Bernsteins recognize the deep-down similarity of all creative thinking, whether in art or science. They demonstrate this similarity by comparing the accounts that various pioneers and inventors have left of their own creative processes: for Picasso just as for Einstein, for Klee just as for Feynman, the creative impulse always begins in vision, in emotion, in intuition. . . . With a lavishly illustrated chapter devoted to each tool, readers quickly realize just how far the imagination can stretch.” —Booklist “A powerful book . . . Sparks of Genius presents radically different ways of approaching problems.” —American Scientist

Author : Frank Chouraqui
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823254125

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Ambiguity and the Absolute by Frank Chouraqui Pdf

Friedrich Nietzsche and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Chouraqui argues, are linked by how they conceive the question of truth. Although both thinkers criticize the traditional concept of truth as objectivity, they both find that rejecting it does not solve the problem. What is it in our natural existence that gave rise to the notion of truth? The answer to that question is threefold. First, Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty both propose a genealogy of “truth” in which to exist means to make implicit truth claims. Second, both seek to recover the preobjective ground from which truth as an erroneous concept arose. Finally, this attempt at recovery leads both thinkers to ontological considerations regarding how we must conceive of a being whose structure allows for the existence of the belief in truth. In conclusion, Chouraqui suggests that both thinkers’ investigations of the question of truth lead them to conceive of being as the process of self-falsification by which indeterminate being presents itself as determinate.

Author : Koffka, K
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781136306884

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Principles Of Gestalt Psychology by Koffka, K Pdf

Routledge is now re-issuing this prestigious series of 204 volumes originally published between 1910 and 1965. The titles include works by key figures such asC.G. Jung, Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget, Otto Rank, James Hillman, Erich Fromm, Karen Horney and Susan Isaacs. Each volume is available on its own, as part of a themed mini-set, or as part of a specially-priced 204-volume set. A brochure listing each title in the "International Library of Psychology" series is available upon request.

Author : Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789401790888

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Flow and the Foundations of Positive Psychology by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Pdf

The second volume in the collected works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi covers about thirty years of Csikszentmihalyi‘s work on three main and interconnected areas of study: attention, flow and positive psychology. Describing attention as psychic energy and in the footsteps of William James, Csikszentmihalyi explores the allocation of attention, the when and where and the amount of attention humans pay to tasks and the role of attention in creating ‘experiences’, or ordered patterns of information. Taking into account information processing theories and attempts at quantifying people’s investment, the chapters deal with such topics as time budgets and the development and use of the Experience Sampling Method of collecting data on attention in everyday life. Following the chapters on attention and reflecting Csikszentmihalyi’s branching out into sociology and anthropology, there are chapters on the topic of adult play and leisure and connected to that, on flow, a concept formulated and developed by Csikszentmihalyi. Flow has become a popular concept in business and management around the world and research on the concept continues to flourish. Finally, this volume contains articles that stem from Csikszentmihalyi’s connection with Martin Seligman; they deal with concepts and theories, as well as with the development and short history, of the field and the “movement” of positive psychology.

Author : Karl Duncker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:878304596

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On Problem-solving by Karl Duncker Pdf

Author : Willis D. Ellis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 093926630X

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A Source Book of Gestalt Psychology by Willis D. Ellis Pdf

Routledge is now re-issuing this prestigious series of 204 volumes originally published between 1910 and 1965. The titles include works by key figures such asC.G. Jung, Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget, Otto Rank, James Hillman, Erich Fromm, Karen Horney and Susan Isaacs. Each volume is available on its own, as part of a themed mini-set, or as part of a specially-priced 204-volume set. A brochure listing each title in the International Library of Psychology series is available upon request.

Author : Ian Verstegen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783211307625

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Arnheim, Gestalt and Art by Ian Verstegen Pdf

Arnheim, Gestalt and Art is the first book-length discussion of the powerful thinking of the psychologist of art, Rudolf Arnheim. Written as a complete overview of Arnheim’s thinking, it covers fundamental issues of the importance of psychological discussion of the arts, the status of gestalt psychology, the various sense modalities and media, and developmental issues. By proceeding in a direction from general to specific and then proceeding through dynamic processes as they unfold in time (creativity, development, etc.), the book discovers an unappreciated unity to Arnheim’s thinking. Not content to simply summarize Arnheim’s theory, however, Arnheim, Art, and Gestalt goes on to enrich (and occasionally question) Arnheim’s findings with the contemporary results of gestalt-theoretical research from around the world, but especially in Italy and Germany. The result is a workable overview of the psychology of art with bridges built to contemporary research, making Arnheim’s approach living and sustainable.