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	Pioneers of Psychology [2001 Tour] - School of Education & Psychology
		In 1910 a psychologist, Max Wertheimer by name, was traveling by train from Vienna to the Rhineland on his vacation.' During this journey an idea came to him for a research study which was to found Gestalt psychology.
		Wertheimer summarized these mistaken beliefs in terms of the "bundle hypothesis" and the "association hypothesis."24 Sensory elements do not form a bundle and association does not serve as a means of binding together, because there is not a summative relationship as the psychologists whom they were attacking claimed.
		Wertheimer lectured at Frankfurt from 1912 on, where he was Dozent, as he did later at Berlin, where he went in 1916.2 He became an "Assistant Professor" in Berlin in 1922, and Professor at Frankfurt in 1929 where he returned to take Schumann's old chair.
	educ.southern.edu /tour/who/pioneers/wertheimer.html (7866 words)

	Max Wertheimer Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		The German psychologist Max Wertheimer (1880-1943) was the originator of Gestalt psychology, which had a profound influence on the whole science of psychology.
		Max Wertheimer was born in Prague on April 15, 1880.
		Soon Wertheimer realized that Hitler was not a passing phenomenon, and he accepted an invitation from the New School for Social Research in New York City to join its University in Exile (later the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science).
	www.bookrags.com /biography/max-wertheimer (673 words)

	Wertheimer, Max \| Introduction: Psychologists and Their Theories
		Much of Wertheimer's research and unique experiments were merely the initial battles in a rebellion against a notion prevailing in European psychology at the time: the "Elementalism or Structuralism" of famed German psychologist Wilhelm Wundt.
		As he watched, Wertheimer discovered that if the spacing, on-time, and off-time were just right for these lights, his mind would perceive the dual lights as one single flashing light moving back and forth.
		Wertheimer was rather like a shooting star that streaked across the study of the mind, shooting off sparks of brilliant insights and then moving on, leaving others to fill in the more mundane facts and procedures deduced from his insights.
	soc.enotes.com /psychology-theories/wertheimer-max (1224 words)

	Max Wertheimer Obituary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		ADA, February 3—Dr. Max Wertheimer, 77, of Ada, noted authority on religion and author of several publications, died in the Lyle Convalescent home in Dunkirk early Sunday.
		Wertheimer lived in the United States 64 years having come to this country from Germany when he was 13 years old.
		In addition to his wife, Dr. Wertheimer is survived by sons, Lester, of St. Louis, Mo.; Max Wertheimer, Jr., of Kenton; Paul, of Los Angeles, Calif.; Joseph, of Evanville (sic), Indiana, and daughters, Rose Wertheimer, of St. Louis and Mrs.
	www.all-of-grace.org /pub/wertheimer/wertheimer_obit.html (250 words)

	Wertheimer, Max - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Wertheimer came to the United States in 1933, shortly before the Nazis seized power in Germany.
		Wertheimer's discovery (1910-12) of the phi phenomenon (concerning the illusion of motion) gave rise to the influential school of Gestalt psychology.
		His early experiments, in collaboration with Wolfgang Köhler and Kurt Koffka, introduced a new approach (macroscopic as opposed to microscopic) to the study of psychological problems.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-wertheim.html (354 words)

	Wertheimer (1989) Max Wertheimer's challenging legacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Max Wertheimer's past contributions to psychology were recognized, 45 years after his death, by the posthumous award to him in 1988 of the Wilhelm Wundt medal of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie.
		The award acknowledged the elegant model of experimental work represented by his original studies of the perception of apparent motion, the development and promulgation of the influential Gestalt theory, and the application of Gestalt thought to significant issues of epistemology, ethics, and social and political science.
		Third, several previously unpublished fragments, dictated by Max Wertheimer, address the nature of genuine explanation; they argue that simply reducing the unfamiliar to the familiar is not enough, but that genuine explanation occurs only if a situation previously not understood becomes clarified, changing from a murky to a transparent state.
	www.getcited.org /pub/103427129 (229 words)

	Max Wertheimer
		MAX WERTHEIMER was born in the province of Baden in Germany, and his devoutly religious father hoped that as a steadfast Jew his son would grow up to be a credit and an honor to his family.
		Wertheimer graduated from Cincinnati University in 1887 and from the rabbinical seminary in 1889.
		The death of his beloved wife was a devastating blow to Max, and he became a broken, unhappy man. One day, as he was walking aimlessly through the streets, a stranger spoke to him and, placing his hand on Max’s shoulder, remarked, “Rabbi, I am sorry for the domestic affliction that has befallen you.
	www.all-of-grace.org /pub/wertheimer/wertheimer.html (2371 words)

	The Founders of Gestalt Theory
		Max WERTHEIMER was born on 15 April 1880 in Prague.
		Wertheimer taught as a Privatdozent at the University of Berlin (1916-1929).
		Max Wertheimer died on 12 October 1943 in New Rochelle, New York.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Cyprus/2926/founders.html (473 words)

	Curriculum Resources/Demonstrations
		Wertheimer recently retired from the University of Colorado after a teaching career that spanned more than four decades.
		Wertheimer has spent the last few years on a biography of his father, the Gestalt psychologist, Max Wertheimer.
		Wertheimer illustrated these observations with numerous examples, ranging from finding the area of a parallelogram to how Albert Einstein formulated the theory of relativity.
	www.apa.org /ed/wertheimer.html (2525 words)

	Gestalt Archive : Max Wertheimer - Understanding Psychotics' Speech
		WERTHEIMER said, If the patient is mad at the doctor he might take the question to mean that the doctor is a fresh person.
		WERTHEIMER said that it does not solve the problem to say that there is a lack of or a break up of ordinary associations in his speech.
		WERTHEIMER agreed and said that his use of concepts from physics is not an attempt to reduce psychological phenomena to physics or to explain them by mathematical concepts which are used in physics but to start a search for other approaches.
	gestalttheory.net /archive/wertspeech.html (2615 words)

	Untersuchen zur Lehre von der Gestalt 2
		Max Wertheimer, Untersuchen zur Lehre von der Gestalt, II.
		The examples that Wertheimer constructed were very simple; most of them consisted of a set of dots.
		The purpose of these examples was to aid in the understanding of the different factors that influenced the grouping or composition of elements into wholes.
	www.rci.rutgers.edu /~cfs/305_html/Gestalt/wertheimer2.html (937 words)

	Max Wertheimer Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Max Wertheimer (Prague, April 15, 1880 - New York, October 12, 1943) was one of the founders of gestalt psychology.
		In 1933 he escaped Germany to the United States, where he taught at the New School for Social Research in New York City.
		Wertheimer is seen as one of the founding fathers of modern psychology.
	www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/m/ma/max_wertheimer.html (178 words)

	Max Wertheimer within Psychology at RIN.ru
		Max Wertheimer was born in Prague, Germany on April 15, 1880.
		During Max Wertheimer's period of education, it was the practice in Germany for students to migrate from one University to another, remaining there for but a few semesters.
		He was interested in developing a lie detector for the objective study of testimony and devising a method of word association as part of his doctoral dissertation.
	psy.rin.ru /eng/article/175-101.html (263 words)

	Ash (1989) Max Wertheimer's university career in Germany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		What drew Wertheimer to psychological science was its potential philosophical relevance, as expounded by his mentors Christian von Ehrenfels and Carl Stumpf.
		Once his career had begun, however, he faced the challenge of maintaining intellectual independence in a system where patronage counted, and also the problem of producing systematic philosophical work as well as empirical research in psychology at appropriate points in his career.
		These difficulties, compounded by Wertheimer's highly personal style of thinking and writing, appear to have been at least as inhibiting to Wertheimer's career as was Anti-Semitism.
	www.getcited.org /pub/103417711 (203 words)

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		While traveling by train on vacation, a 30-year-old Czech-born psychologist named Max Wertheimer was seized by an idea when he saw flashing lights at a railroad crossing that resembled lights encircling a theater marquee.
		In 1912, the movement was given impetus in psychology by German theorists Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang KOhler, and Kurt Koffka as a protest against the prevailing atomistic, analytical psychological thought.
		In a series of lectures in 1913, Wertheimer outlined a new psychological approach based on the belief that mental operations consist mainly of these organic "wholes" rather than the chains of associated sensations and impressions emphasized by Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920) and other psychological researchers of the day.
	www.lycos.com /info/gestalt--gestalt-psychology.html (819 words)

	TIP: Theories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Along with Kohler and Koffka, Max Wertheimer was one of the principal proponents of Gestalt theory which emphasized higher-order cognitive processes in the midst of behaviorism.
		The essence of successful problem-solving behavior according to Wertheimer is being able to see the overall structure of the problem: "A certain region in the field becomes crucial, is focused; but it does not become isolated.
		The classic example of Gestalt principles provided by Wertheimer is children finding the area of parallelograms.
	tip.psychology.org /wertheim.html (422 words)

	Gestalt Psychology
		Gestalt Psychology, founded by Max Wertheimer, was to some extent a rebellion against the molecularism of Wundt’s program for psychology, in sympathy with many others at the time, including William James.
		The original observation was Wertheimer’s, when he noted that we perceive motion where there is nothing more than a rapid sequence of individual sensory events.
		This is what he saw in the toy stroboscope he bought at the Frankfurt train station, and what he saw in his laboratory when he experimented with lights flashing in rapid succession (like the Christmas lights that appear to course around the tree, or the fancy neon signs in Los Vegas that seem to move).
	www.ship.edu /~cgboeree/gestalt.html (2337 words)

	Key Theorists/Theories in Psychology - MAX WERTHEIMER
		Wertheimer's discovery (1910—12) of the phi phenomenon (concerning the illusion of motion) gave rise to the influential school of Gestalt psychology.
		On Perceptual Grouping: Adapted from M. Wertheimer (by C. Schmidt)
		Isomorphism in Gestalt Theory: Comparison of Wertheimer's and Kohler's Concepts (by A. Luchins and E. Luchins)
	www.psy.pdx.edu /PsiCafe/KeyTheorists/Wertheimer.htm (260 words)

	Max Wertheimer - Wikipedia
		1933 wanderte Max Wertheimer angesichts des aufstrebenden Nationalsozialismus über die Tschechoslowakei in die USA aus, wo er von 1933 bis 1943 an der New School for Social Research in New York lehrte.
		Max Wertheimer publizierte nicht sehr viel unter seinem eigenen Namen, prägte aber viele von ihm inspirierte und angeleitete Arbeiten entscheidend.
		Zu den bedeutenden Schülern und Mitarbeitern von Max Wertheimer in den USA zählten unter anderen Abraham S. Luchins (Psychiater, Pionier der Gruppentherapie) und sein früherer Assistent Erwin Levy (Psychologe, Psychoanalytiker und Psychiater).
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Max_Wertheimer (578 words)

	Remembering Max Wertheimer and visual perception
		Wertheimer was one of the psychologists who founded the practice of Gestalt therapy.
		But Wertheimer was interested in how people see things.
		He wanted to know about background and foreground optical illusions, about ambiguous pictures, and about the phi phenomenon, which is seeing motion where there is none to see.
	www.argonaut.uidaho.edu /archives/120500/opinstory1.html (428 words)

	Apparent motion: Max Wertheimer's 1912 monograph and current research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Motion perception: A modern view of Max Wertheimer's 1912 monograph on apparent motion
		Max Wertheimer's 1912 monograph on apparent motion is recognized as a seminal contribution to the study of visual motion, but its actual contents are not widely known.
		This article clarifies what the monograph did and did not contribute, calling attention to links between Wertheimer's principal findings and those from subsequent investigations of motion perception, including currently-active lines of research.
	people.brandeis.edu /~sekuler/ABSTRACTS/wertheimer.html (108 words)

	Wertheimer Max - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		Wertheimer Max - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		At the beginning of the 20th century, associationism dominated psychology.
		Beckmann, Max (1884-1950), German Expressionist painter and printmaker, whose works convey a pessimistic view of society.
	au.encarta.msn.com /Wertheimer_Max.html (79 words)

	Max Wertheimer; Wolfgang Kohler; Kurt Koffka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Max Wertheimer was born in Prague, Germany, in 1880.
		He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Berlin in 1909 and then went to the University of Frankfurt, where he met Wertheimer and Koffka.
		In 1913 he went to the Canary Islands, where he was the director of a research station on ape behavior.
	www.dushkin.com /connectext/psy/ch04/bio4.mhtml (264 words)

	AllRefer.com - Max Wertheimer (Psychology And Psychiatry, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		AllRefer.com - Max Wertheimer (Psychology And Psychiatry, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Max Wertheimer[mAks vert´hImur] Pronunciation Key, 1880–1943, German psychologist, b.
		His early experiments, in collaboration with Wolfgang KOhler and Kurt Koffka, introduced a new approach (macroscopic as opposed to microscopic) to the study of psychological problems.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/Wertheim.html (263 words)

	Max Wertheimer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		· An early research interest, in keeping with Wertheimer's interest in the law, had been in the association experiment as used for the detection of guilty knowledge on which he had published in 1905 and in later years.
		· Wertheimer's paper on the "Experimental Studies of the Perception of Movement" appeared in 1912.
		· In this paper Wertheimer attempted to show that a person perceives objects just as directly as he saw motion in the study of the phi phenomenon, not as clusters of sensations but as unified wholes.
	faculty.frostburg.edu /mbradley/psyography/datelines_wertheimer.html (1159 words)

	Amazon.com: "Max Wertheimer": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Among the "few especially advanced workers" Stumpf mentioned were nearly all of the founders or leading co-workers of Gestalt theory: Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka, Wolfgang Khler, Adhemar Gelb, Johannes von Allesch, and Kurt Lewin.
		Propositional language, which consists of linear chains of standardized units, has come 'The psychologist Max Wertheimer gave much thought to a gestalt logic in which he intended, for example, to develop a theory of concept formation...
		88 NEW SCHOOL Karl Mannheim, psychologist Max Wertheimer, and economist Adolph Lowe.' Johnson and his colleagues on the Encyclopedia understood that the work of these European social scientists...
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Max-Wertheimer (563 words)

	William Rhodes' Radio Weblog
		Human beings are viewed as open systems in active interaction with their environment.
		The coming to power of national socialism substantially interrupted the fruitful scientific development of Gestalt theory in the German-speaking world; Koffka, Wertheimer, Köhler and Lewin emigrated, or were forced to flee, to the United States.
		The GTA views as its main task the provision of a scientific and organizational framework for the elaboration and further development of the perspective of Gestalt theory in research and practice.
	radio.weblogs.com /0147717 (355 words)

	Amazon.com: Max Wertheimer and Gestalt Theory: Books: Michael Wertheimer,D. King (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		But one hint that does get passed down frequently is that Abraham Maslow viewed Wertheimer as one of the few "self-actualized" people he had met.
		This is Michael Wertheimer's long-awaited biography of his beloved and long-deceased father, completed with his long-time research collaborator, Brett King.
		Professor Wertheimer's offices were cluttered with document after document related to his father and other Gestalt psychologists.
	www.amazon.com /Max-Wertheimer-Gestalt-Theory-Michael/dp/0765802589 (943 words)

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