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Gestalt principles
Activity
Examine the ff. pictures.
What word do you see?
Objectives:
Describe the different gestalt principles.
List ways of applying gestalt psychology in
teaching-learning process.
Demonstrate appreciation of the usefulness of
gestalt principles in the teaching-learning process.
Gestalt Psychology
Gestalt Principles Insight Learning Life space (Lewin)
Law of Proximity
Law of Closure
Law of Good
Continuation
Law of Good
Pragnanz
Law of
Figure/Ground
Inner Forces
Outer Forces
Gestalt psychology- was at the forefront of the
cognitive psychology. It served as the
foundation of the cognitive perspective to
learning. It opposed the external and
mechanistic focus of behaviorism. It considered
the mental processes and products of perception
The term Gestalt means “form” or “configuration”.
Psychologist Max Wertheimer,Wolfgang Kohler
and Kurt Koffka studied perception and concluded
that perceivers are not passive, but rather active.
They suggested that learners do not just collect
information as is but they actively process and
restructure data in order to understand it. This is
the perceptual process and certain factors
impact on this perceptual process.
Gestalt Principles
Law of Proximity
•Elements that are close together will be
perceived as a coherent object.
Law of Similarity
•Elements that look similar will be perceived as part of
the same form.
Law of Closure
•We tend to fill the gaps or “close” the figures we
perceive. We enclose a space by completing a contour
and ignoring gaps in the figure.
Law of Good Continuation
•Individuals have the tendency to continue contours
whenever the elements or the pattern establish an implied
direction. People tend to draw a good continuation line.
Law of Good Pragnanz
•The stimulus will be organized into as good a figure as
possible.
Law of Figure/Ground
•We tend to pay attention and perceive things in the
foreground first. A stimulus will be perceived as
separate from its ground.
Gestalt principles
Gestalt principles
Insight Learning
•Gestalt Psychology adheres to the idea of learning
taking place by discovery or insight. The idea of
insight learning was first developed by Kohler in
which he described experiments with the apes.
•Apes could used boxers and sticks as tools to solve
problem.
•In the box, a banana is attached to the top of a
chimpanzee’s cage. The banana is out of the reach but
can be reached by climbing on or jumping from a box.
Chica on the jumping stick Grande on an insecure
construction
Sultan making a double stick
•Only one Kohler’s ape (Sultan) could solve this problems.
•A much more difficult problem which involved the
stocking of boxes. This problem require the ape to stack on
box on another, and master gravitational problems by
building a stable stack.
•Sultan, Kohler’s very intelligent ape, was able to master a
two-stick problem by inserting one stick into the end of the
other in order to reach the food.
In each of the problems, the important aspect of
learning was not reinforcement, but the coordination
of thinking aspect of learning was not reinforcement,
but the coordination of thinking to create new
organization. Kohler referred to this as insight or
discovery of learning.
Gestalt Principles and the Teaching Learning-Process
• The six gestalt principles not only influence
perception but they also impact on learning.
• Kurt Lewin’s theory focusing on “life space” adhered
to gestalt psychology.
• He said that individual has inner and outer voice.
Inner forces- include his own motivation, attitudes
and feelings.
Outer forces- include the attitude and behavior of
teacher and classmates.
Mario Polito- an Italian psychologist, writes about
the relevance of gestalt psychology to education.
Thank You

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Gestalt principles

  • 2. Activity Examine the ff. pictures. What word do you see?
  • 3. Objectives: Describe the different gestalt principles. List ways of applying gestalt psychology in teaching-learning process. Demonstrate appreciation of the usefulness of gestalt principles in the teaching-learning process.
  • 4. Gestalt Psychology Gestalt Principles Insight Learning Life space (Lewin) Law of Proximity Law of Closure Law of Good Continuation Law of Good Pragnanz Law of Figure/Ground Inner Forces Outer Forces
  • 5. Gestalt psychology- was at the forefront of the cognitive psychology. It served as the foundation of the cognitive perspective to learning. It opposed the external and mechanistic focus of behaviorism. It considered the mental processes and products of perception
  • 6. The term Gestalt means “form” or “configuration”. Psychologist Max Wertheimer,Wolfgang Kohler and Kurt Koffka studied perception and concluded that perceivers are not passive, but rather active.
  • 7. They suggested that learners do not just collect information as is but they actively process and restructure data in order to understand it. This is the perceptual process and certain factors impact on this perceptual process.
  • 8. Gestalt Principles Law of Proximity •Elements that are close together will be perceived as a coherent object.
  • 9. Law of Similarity •Elements that look similar will be perceived as part of the same form.
  • 10. Law of Closure •We tend to fill the gaps or “close” the figures we perceive. We enclose a space by completing a contour and ignoring gaps in the figure.
  • 11. Law of Good Continuation •Individuals have the tendency to continue contours whenever the elements or the pattern establish an implied direction. People tend to draw a good continuation line.
  • 12. Law of Good Pragnanz •The stimulus will be organized into as good a figure as possible.
  • 13. Law of Figure/Ground •We tend to pay attention and perceive things in the foreground first. A stimulus will be perceived as separate from its ground.
  • 16. Insight Learning •Gestalt Psychology adheres to the idea of learning taking place by discovery or insight. The idea of insight learning was first developed by Kohler in which he described experiments with the apes. •Apes could used boxers and sticks as tools to solve problem. •In the box, a banana is attached to the top of a chimpanzee’s cage. The banana is out of the reach but can be reached by climbing on or jumping from a box.
  • 17. Chica on the jumping stick Grande on an insecure construction
  • 18. Sultan making a double stick
  • 19. •Only one Kohler’s ape (Sultan) could solve this problems. •A much more difficult problem which involved the stocking of boxes. This problem require the ape to stack on box on another, and master gravitational problems by building a stable stack. •Sultan, Kohler’s very intelligent ape, was able to master a two-stick problem by inserting one stick into the end of the other in order to reach the food.
  • 20. In each of the problems, the important aspect of learning was not reinforcement, but the coordination of thinking aspect of learning was not reinforcement, but the coordination of thinking to create new organization. Kohler referred to this as insight or discovery of learning.
  • 21. Gestalt Principles and the Teaching Learning-Process • The six gestalt principles not only influence perception but they also impact on learning. • Kurt Lewin’s theory focusing on “life space” adhered to gestalt psychology. • He said that individual has inner and outer voice.
  • 22. Inner forces- include his own motivation, attitudes and feelings. Outer forces- include the attitude and behavior of teacher and classmates.
  • 23. Mario Polito- an Italian psychologist, writes about the relevance of gestalt psychology to education.

Notes de l'éditeur

  1. Gestalt: a holistic school that focuses on the "big picture." Their motto is "the sum is greater than the whole" which is to say that your idea of something (say a home) means more than each of the parts (boards, a door, windows, etc.). Behaviorism: hard core behaviorists believe that everything you do is because of conditioning. You are merely a puppet, an animal trained to act one way or another by your parents and society.
  2. Example. Painting.
  3. Proximity refers to where items are and how that effects grouping. Proximity is concerned with where items are placed.
  4. Similarity refers to what items look like and how that effects grouping. Similarity is concerned with what items look like.
  5. In German, pragnanz means clarity, so laws of pragnanz are laws of clarity Your mind wants to make the most meaningful yet easiest interpretation of stimuli that it can make. "The minimum principle of perception." We do not see the little mistakes in pictures, sentence structures, etc.. We see what we perceive at first glance.