PSYB57H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Critical Thinking, Solution Set, Memory Consolidation
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Consciousness tends to be organized into a coherent whole. Gestalt switch: a sudden change in the way information is organized i. e. duck rabbit illusion perception of it completely changes: insight problem: A problem that we must look at from a different angle before we can see how to solve it. These problems require a different perspective to solve it: k hler and the mentality of apes: Chimpanzee arrived at sudden insight to use a small stick to retrieve a longer stick to retrieve a banana outside of cage. Insight occurred spontaneously and was all-or-none o: wertheimer (1959) is often considered the founder of gestalt psychology. Sometimes we approach things with expertise or background knowledge that interferes with what we"re trying to do. Superficial learning interferes with the ability to see what might be obvious to a more na ve person. Overthinking would be to calculate the area of the 2 semicircles.
