Selz, Otto

(1881-1944) - German psychologist, a follower of Wurzburg school. In experimental studies of reproductive and productive thinking revealed the determination of mental processes, the structure of the problem being solved, . presented in the form of a special 'problem set' with an element of incompleteness, . overcome by a swarm, and is the result of decision,
. The development of 'anticipatory scheme' (cm. Anticipation), the result of organizing the process of thinking through the actualization of a certain system of intellectual operations (addition, complex, abstract and reproduction of similarity) as the known methods of implementing solutions, and leading to the discovery of new. Treatment of thinking as a process of rebuilding the integrity of the structure of the problem situation has influenced the study of thinking in Gestalt, . as well as a number of studies of mechanisms of creative thinking ( 'The laws of productive activities and reproduktivnoy.duhovnoy', . 1924).,