PSYB57H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Gestalt Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Solution Process
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Insight problems and the gestalt theory of thinking: Insight occurs spontaneously and suddenly, and involves a perceptual restructuring of the situation: the chimpanzee suddenly saw how to solve the problem. The area to be painted gold is bounded by two parallel vertical lines tangent to the circle and equal in length to the diameter of the circle. To figure out how much paint is required, you need to know the size of the area inside the lines but outside the window: wertheimer described several attempts to solve this problem. Some adult participants in wertheimer"s study involving this problem interpreted the problem in terms of what they had learned from similar problems in the past. Instead of thinking reproductively, the child was sensitive to the structural requirements of the actual problem that he was asked to solve. If they balance, then the third (unweighted) coin must be counterfeit.
