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Gestalt Psychology - Coggle Diagram

- - - - the illusion that two stationary flashing lights are moving from one place to another
    - - reproductive thinking
      - productive thinking
  - - - The Mentality of Apes
      - Static and Stationary Physical Gestalts
    - - Köhler’s research with chimps
        
        interpreted the results of his animal research in terms of the whole situation and the relationships among the stimuli
        
        Problem solving is a matter of restructuring the perceptual field
        
        A Sudden Insight
        
        studied chimpanzees and their ability to solve problems
        
        behavior was goal-oriented, purposeful, and deliberate
    - - the relational discrimination “darker than” rather than a response to an absolute stimulus values
      - cognitive structure
- - - - use of observation through memory and imagination
      - focus on mental activity
  - - - study intact and meaningful experiences rather than breaking them down into elements
      - based on an unbiased description of immediate experience just as it occurs
  - - - argued that our perception of an object does not change, even if we change our orientation to it
  - - - consciousness is continuous which cannot be divided up for analysis
- - - - psychological fact
        
        principle of contemporaneity
      - imagined events
      - negative valance
      - positive valance
        
        Goal Seeking
      - Biological and psychological needs cause tension
        
        Motivation
        
        Zeigarnik effect