Tag
Gestalt Psychology
Entries tagged gestalt psychology.
4 entries
Concept
Gestalt Principles of Perception
The mind groups raw sensory fragments into organized wholes by rules like proximity, similarity, closure, and continuity, rather than building perception up piece by piece.
9 min
TraditionGestalt Psychology
The claim that perception and thought are organized into structured wholes that cannot be built up from separate sensory parts.
12 min
Thought experimentInsight Learning
Wolfgang Köhler's chimpanzees solved problems by a sudden reorganization of the whole situation, not by gradual trial and error, and that challenged the behaviorist account of how learning works.
9 min
ConceptProblem-Solving Heuristics
The rules of thumb people use to search for a solution when no guaranteed procedure exists, and the fixed habits of mind that can make those shortcuts fail.
7 min