Würzburg School of Psychology

The Würzburg School of Psychology, founded in the early 20th century in Germany, focused on understanding how individuals perceive and interpret their environment. It emphasized the importance of studying mental processes like attention, perception, and learning by analyzing how we organize sensations into meaningful experiences. The school combined experimental methods with theoretical insights, contributing to fields such as Gestalt psychology, which explores how the mind perceives patterns and wholes rather than just individual elements. Overall, it sought to understand the active, constructive nature of perception and cognition, highlighting that we perceive the world in organized, meaningful ways.