GESTALT PSYCHOLOGY

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Gestalt Psychology

Watch this video to understand how psychology gained insights from the law of perception.

Gestalt psychologists were unhappy with the structuralist schools’ sensory atomism as well as simple reinforcement theory that privileged the role of simple association of elements. The alternative they proposed was the concept of Gestalt and their goal was to investigate grouping laws that were to influence both theories of perception and thinking in psychology.

Lizenz

University of Basel