PSYCH 4150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Kurt Lewin, Phi Phenomenon, Kurt Koffka
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Koffka: geographical environment vs. behavioral environment. Behavioral: relationship with how we act in environment. Behavioral has meaning for us: said meaning is already there with the geo, environment. What does the environment mean to us: proper description from gestalt view is not a physical description but rather how we experience the world. Blinking on and off or light jumping back and forth. Was just a series of still pictures. There was no motion but we perceived that there was motion: productive thinking. Law of pragnanz: law of good form, we perceive what is most simple and most clear, example of faces. They are mostly symmetrical but not perfectly so. There are experiments where they take a mirror image of one side of the face and the face actually looks very different. Kohler: put monkeys in puzzle boxes (thorndike) They can learn by trial and error. Law of effect: insight learning vs. trial and error learning.
