In Gestalt psychology and social psychology, field theory examines the patterns of interaction between an individual and the total psychological field, or environment, surrounding them. The concept entered psychology out of the holistic perspective of Gestalt theory, and was developed by the Gestalt psychologist Kurt Lewin in the 1940s. Lewin expressed the theory through his own equation, behavior as a function of the person and their environment together, meaning that behavior cannot be explained by either the person or the environment alone.
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Core ClaimBehavior is a function of the person and their environment, expressed as Lewin's equation B = f(p, e). 1 Connections
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Kurt Lewin trained within the Berlin school of Gestalt psychology under Wertheimer and Kohler before extending its holistic, configurational approach from perception into motivation and group behavior as field theory. Lewin himself is not yet a live psychologist entity in this atlas; filed as a gap above rather than left unrecorded.
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meaning that behavior B is a function of the person p and their cultural environment e.
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It was developed by Kurt Lewin, a Gestalt psychologist, in the 1940s.
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In Gestalt psychology and social psychology, field theory is a theory that examines patterns of interaction between the individual and the total field, or environment.
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Bronfenbrenner has identified Soviet developmental psychologist Lev Vygotsky and German-born psychologist Kurt Lewin as important influences on his theory.
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