The importance of a good education was introduced to Kohler early in life, for his father was a schoolmaster, his sisters were nurses and educators, and Wilhelm, his older brother, was a scholar. ... His dissertation was written on psycho-acoustics and physics - music obviously playing a large role in Kohlers life. ... The fact that he wrote so many books on Gestalt psychology and perceptual theories in general shows that Kohler was dedicated to mainstreaming Gestalt psychology and overcoming Gestalt psychology's opposition. He gave his life to psychology as shown by the many works that ...

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Abstract Autism is characterized by patterns of delay and development of social, communicative, and cognitive skills, which arise in the first years of life. ... Originally, it was referred to as a basic disturbance found in schizophrenia patients who had trouble forming relationships with people and withdrew themselves from any form of a social life. The common belief prior to Kaner and Hans's time was autism was a psychological disorder believed to be cause by a neglectful mother and there was little to be done to help these children who seemed unreachable. ... Early signs of aut...

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The external world includes all the things happening outside human minds such as activities in real life, in movies or in books. ... In time, she begins to see and hear things that may or may not be happening. ... Right after the second time the Governess saw the ghost of Peter Quint, she told Mrs. ...

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In these tasks the psychologist must make use of scientific knowledge combined with his own personal experience to address problems that most of the time cannot be postponed. ... Over time and repeated exposures to this picture you might start feeling like you've "seen it a million times" and it just doesn't have the same effect on you that it used to. ... As there are almost constant interactions between cognition and emotion in everyday life, any attempt to provide an adequate theory of cognition that ignores emotion is likely to prove inadequate. ...

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