Lewinian Rigidity and the Einstellung Test.

• Main Author: Schwartzman, Alex E.
• Other Authors: Luchins, A.S. (Supervisor)
• Format: Others
• Language: en
• Published: McGill University 1952
• Subjects: Psychology.
• Online Access: http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=108634

The human being may be regarded as an organism possessing certain centralized properties which permit him to respond to many and diverse stimuli in an organized and selective manner. This conception of man, inexplicable in terms of the old Laws of Association, gained firmer ground with experimentation begun in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Reaction-time experiments constituted the major portion of research current at the time.