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Gestalt
Psychology
Is there possibility
Of you and me together?
GESTALT
PRINCIPLES
Law of Proximity. Element that are closer
together will to perceived as a coherence; object on the
left, there appears to be three columns, while on the right
there appears to be three horizontal rows. When objects
we are perceiving are near each others, we perceive them
as belonging together.
Law of Similarity.
Elements that look similar which be perceived as
part of the same form. There seems to be a triangle in
the square . We link similar elements together
Law of Closure.
We tend to fill the gaps or close the
figures we perceive. We enclose a space by
completing a contour and ignoring gaps in
the figure.
Insight Learning
Gestalt psychology adheres to the idea of learning
taking place by discovery or insight. The idea of insight
learning was first developed by Wolfgang kohler in which
he described experiments with apes where the apes could
use boxes and sticks as tools to solve problems . In the
box problem, a banana is attached to the top of a
chimpanzees cage. The banana is out of reach but can be
reached by climbing upon and jumping from a box. Only
one of kohlers apes (Sultan) could solve this problem. A
much more difficult problem which involved the stacking
of boxes was introduce by kohler, This problem required
the ape to stack.