Word: kohler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Professor E. P. Kohler, Resident...
...coming of Dr. William Lawrence from England to teach the history of the Elizabethan stage, and in History Professor William Scott Ferguson and Professor Samuel Eliot Morison '08 will each take courses. In the Philosophy and Psychology Department Dr. Maurice deWulf will return to teach and Professor Wolfgang Kohler will come to the University...
Professor Wolfgang Kohler, who will join the Department of Psychology, is a figure upon whom the eyes of all students of psychology are turned. At the early age of 38, he has done work of the most brilliant sort in experimental psychology and has been the leader of "Gestalt Psychology", a new and radical development in the field...
Professor Kohler has made a specialty of animal psychology, in particular having studied the mentality of apes in Africa in the years just before the war. He is spending one year in the United States and is at present at Clark University in Worcester. During the first half of next year he will give a seminary in psychology on the subject of "Gestalt Psychology...
Another fact which Professor Kohler stressed was the mistaken idea of ape psychology which is held by many persons. "Apes do not ape," was the epitome of his discourse. Simian intelligence is not imitative; its advances are through trial and error or by a sudden comprehension of the key facts of a situation...