When1: 1925
When2: 1940
Who: Wolfgang Köhler [Köhler, Wolfgang]
What: psychologist
Where: Germany
works\ Mentality of Apes [1925]; Task of Gestalt Psychology [1929]; Place of Value in a World of Facts [1938]; Dynamics in Psychology [1940]
Detail: He lived 1887 to 1967 and co-founded Gestalt School. Insight, not trial and error, solves problems that involve thought or tool use. Insight involves perception rearrangement {restructuring}, to reveal previously hidden or unnoticed features.
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