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Also Known As James Jerome Gibson
Born January 27, 1904 • Ohio • Ithaca
Died December 11, 1979 (aged 75) • New York
Notable Works “The Perception of the Visual World”
Notable Family Members spouse Eleanor J. Gibson
Subjects Of Study “The Perception of the Visual World” • perception
William James
William James
American psychologist and philosopher
Mary Whiton Calkins
American philosopher and psychologist
James Mark Baldwin
American philosopher and psychologist
George S. Klein
American psychologist
Ladd
George Trumbull Ladd
American psychologist and philosopher
Harry S. Broudy
American educator
Joy Paul Guilford
American psychologist
George Berkeley
George Berkeley
Irish philosopher
Henri Tajfel
Polish-born British social psychologist
Max Wertheimer
Czech-born psychologist
Condillac, engraving by Pierre-Nicolas Ransonnette
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
French philosopher
Franz Brentano
German philosopher
Alexius Meinong
Austrian philosopher and psychologist
Gustav Fechner
German philosopher and physicist
Moritz Lazarus, 1892
Moritz Lazarus
Jewish philosopher and psychologist
Wolfgang Köhler
German psychologist
Johannes Nikolaus Tetens
German mathematician, economist, and philosopher
Bain, detail of an oil painting by Sir George Reid; in the collection of the University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Alexander Bain
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Kurt Koffka, c. 1928.
Kurt Koffka
German psychologist
Oswald Külpe
German psychologist and philosopher

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