This videos describes the key points of Gestalt school. The points mentioned in slides are core points. These points are important for paper point of view. Link is given below https://youtu.be/PDQeKtSrNq4

1. Gestalt psychology
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2. Exponent
Max
Wertheimer(1910)---
develop gestalt
principle
Father of gestalt
psychology

3. Zeigarnik effect
• Bluma Zeigarnik
• Russian psychologist
• interrupted task are best
memorizing because of the
tension of being finished
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5. Phi
phenomena
• involves perceiving a series of still
images in rapid succession in order
to create the illusion of movement

6. Other Exponents
Kurt Koffka----
develops law of
perception
Principles of Gestalt
psychology (1935)
Wolfgang Kohler
works with apes
on insight
Kurt Lewin(field
theory of learning)

7. It deals with the
study of whole
behavior or
experience and
whole in different
from its parts

8. Human activity cannot be broken down into
components
Against the
structuralism which
break down the
behavior or experience
into component.
Human activity cannot
be broken down into
components

9. They use term insight to describe this type of behavior
Any activity of thinking, sensation ,perception can be studied as a whole
Seeing and judging relationship between factors involves in a situation
on whole
• Taking and immediate decision and behaving accordingly

13. Gestalt
principles

14. Law of
proximity

15. Law of similarity

16. Law of closure

17. Law of good continuation

18. Law of good paragnanz

19. Law of figure
or ground

20. Contribution
to education
• In the construction and organization of the curricula
and syllabi consideration is being given to gestalt
principles
• Subject mater of a particular subject is always
organized as whole
• Presenting the learning materials in gestalt form then
proceeding to the parts.
• Stress is being laid in inter disciplinary approach
• Emphasis on role motivation
• Provided a scientific and progressive method of
problem solving based on cognitive abilities of
learners
• Necessitated research in the field of organizational
climate, institutional planning and group dynamic for
organizing the factors into a meaning whole