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Gestalt Psychology - Psychology, Special Needs, Health - Posted: 1st Feb, 2007 - 7:07am
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Gestalt Psychology
Gestalt Psychology
Do you agree with the philosophy of Gestalt Psychology?
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Post Date: 1st Feb, 2007 - 7:07am / Post ID: #
Psychology Gestalt
Wiki defines Gestalt Psychology as such:
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| Gestalt psychology (also Gestalt theory of the Berlin School) is a theory of mind and brain that proposes that the operational principle of the brain is holistic, parallel, and analog, with self-organizing tendencies. The classic Gestalt example is a soap bubble, whose spherical shape (its Gestalt) is not defined by a rigid template, or a mathematical formula, but rather it emerges spontaneously by the parallel action of surface tension acting at all points in the surface simultaneously. This is in contrast to the "atomistic" principle of operation of the digital computer, where every computation is broken down into a sequence of simple steps, each of which is computed independently of the problem as a whole. The Gestalt effect refers to the form-forming capability of our senses, particularly with respect to the visual recognition of figures and whole forms instead of just a collection of simple lines and curves. |
Gestalt can best be described by showing someone a picture of a dog sniffing a tree in the park. You don't recognized the parts of the dog, then put them together, you simply recognize the pattern of dog and identify it as a whole dog.
Gestalt denies the idea that we are atomistic because we recognize patterns in whole, not in pieces. However, there is no way to know the instantaneous process of identifying a dog. Perhaps we do see parts and shapes that make it up separately first, then create the logical connections of those pieces and recognize the dog? Gestalt is really hard to prove, but an intriguing thought processes. The biggest issue I have with it is that Gestalt fails to explain how we can work through word and real life problems where you must reason through several different levels of logic. You can't simply recognize everything by pattern, even if thats they way we SEE things.
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