Abstract

CURVELLO, Flávio Vieira  and  FERREIRA, Arthur Arruda Leal. Max Wertheimer's Anthropological Work and Gestalt Psychology. Psicol. pesq. [online]. 2014, vol.8, n.1, pp. 77-84. ISSN 1982-1247.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5327/Z1982-1247201400010008.

This paper aims at considering the manner through which the rupture between Gestalt Psychology and the psychologies that preceed it is usually presented. It aims also at finding in Max Wertheimer's anthropological work, more specifically in the text Über das Denken der Naturvölker, some elements which may enrich this narrative and allow us to look at it in a slightly different way. In order to do that, we will consider how Wertheimer describes the so-called primitive ways of comprehending quantity and how he finds out in them distinctive whole-properties. These whole-properties clearly show that he was already concerned with problems that would be more explicitly presented later, in the well-known works of the Berlin School in Psychology of perception.

Keywords : Gestalt Psychology; anthropology; experimental Psychology; history of Psychology; mathematics.

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