This paper was a presidential address to Division 24 at the meeting of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, September 1975. It was first published in the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 14, pp 23-32, then republished in M. Henle, 1879 and All That, Essays in the Theory and History of Psychology, Columbia University Press, New York 1986, pp 22-35. Have a look at the...

In the 1920s Max Wertheimer enunciated a credo of Gestalt theory: the properties of any of the parts are governed by the structural laws of the whole. Intense efforts at the time to discover these laws had only very limited success. Psychology was in the grips of the Fechnerian tradition to seek exact relationships between the material and the mental and, because the Gestalt movement could not ...

ABSTRACT Fifty-four clients (13to 52-years-old) in an Appalachian sheltered,workshopww9,re,administered the Slosson Drawing Coordination Test ODCT) and the BeWder Visual Motor Gestalt Test. Twenty-nine Ss were labeled possibly brain damaged by the SDCT, and 17 Ss by the M. Hutt scoring system for the Bender-Gestalt. Two psychologists using all available data and clinical judgment classified onl...

PURPOSE Diagnostic prediction models such as the Wells rule can be used for safely ruling out pulmonary embolism (PE) when it is suspected. A physician's own probability estimate ("gestalt"), however, is commonly used instead. We evaluated the diagnostic performance of both approaches in primary care. METHODS Family physicians estimated the probability of PE on a scale of 0% to 100% (gestalt)...

Integration on process level has emerged as a promising paradigm for managing Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) strategies. However, there is a missing link between established messaging infrastructures, utilizing the transport of messages and a processcoupled view on it. Testing and analyzing the results are two tightly coupled and normally inseparable mechanisms. This paper describes a...

alzheimer's disease is the most common degenerative disease of brain. nowadays, the most common treatment being used to slow down disease progression, include donepezil , rivastigmine and galantamine, which all of them act as inhibitors of acetyl cholinesterase. general purpose of our study was to show effects of treatment with donepezil and rivastigmine, as two drugs that commonly used for tre...