Kohler (Kohler) Wolfgang( German psychologist)
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Biography Kohler (Kohler) Wolfgang
(21.01.1887 - 11.06.1967) - German psychologist, one of the founders of Gestalt psychology. In the 1910's., Conducted research on an experimental station on. Tenerife (Canary Islands) on the problem of thinking apes, . as a result of which showed, . that apes, . and even in animals less developed, . thinking is done not just by blind trial and error, . implemented in practical terms (as was believed in behaviorism), . based on a mental representation of the solution of the problem, . The basis of this decision they saw the process of education in the visual field of animal coherent structure, or 'good gestalt'. Later, . in their theoretical work has made a finding on the formation of gestalt not only in the minds, . but at the level of physiology and physics, . allowing him to join in addressing the mind-body problem for the supporters of the concept antilokalizatsionizma, . After immigrating in 1935. in the United States studied the electrophysiological basis of the educational process Gestalt.
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