Kurt Koffka

Japanese: コフカ - こふか(英語表記)Kurt Koffka
Kurt Koffka

German psychologist and one of the leading figures in the Gestalt school of psychology. Born in Berlin, he was a student of Stumpf at the University of Berlin. Along with Köhler, he also served as a subject in Wertheimer's research on motion vision, which was the starting point of Gestalt psychology. One of his early works was The Fundamentals of Mental Development: An Introduction to Child Psychology (1921). In 1924 he moved to the United States and became a professor at Smith College. He made early efforts to introduce Gestalt psychology to American psychologists. His English book Principles of Gestalt Psychology (1935) is a systematic and comprehensive explanation of Gestalt psychology, and made a particularly great contribution in introducing German-speaking scholarship to the English-speaking world.

[Utsugi Tamotsu]

[References] | Wertheimer | Gestalt psychology | Köhler | Stumpf

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Japanese:

ドイツの心理学者。ゲシュタルト心理学派の代表者の一人。ベルリンの生まれ。ベルリン大学のシュトゥンプの弟子。ゲシュタルト心理学の出発点となったウェルトハイマーの運動視の研究には、ケーラーとともに被験者としても協力した。初期の著書に『心的発達の基礎・児童心理学入門』(1921)がある。1924年アメリカに渡りスミス・カレッジの教授となる。早くからアメリカの心理学者にゲシュタルト心理学を紹介する努力をした。『ゲシュタルト心理学の原理』(1935)はゲシュタルト心理学を体系的総合的に解説した英文の本であり、とくに、ドイツ語圏の学問を英語圏に紹介した点で大きな貢献をした。

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[参照項目] | ウェルトハイマー | ゲシュタルト心理学 | ケーラー | シュトゥンプ

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