PSYC85H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Wolfgang Köhler, Word Association, Behaviorism
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Www. notesolution. com all the same laws that govern what happens in any other realm. In an organism, simplicity in experience is the necessary outcome of basic processes in the brain. Christian von ehrenfels suggested that experiences (ie. melody) should be understood as composed of individual sensations (ie. individual notes), plus a gestalt quality that provided the form of the experience (melody), as a whole. Wertheimer rejected the existence of gestalt qualities superimposed on sensation, in fact he rejected the existence of sensations as such because in psychology, the possibility of advance requires a procedure from above" not from below upward". Thus the comprehension of whole properties and whole-conditions must precede consideration of the real significance of parts". One of the true ancestors of gestalt psychology is kant; he argued against associationist notion that our experience was derived from events in the external world. He says that our experience was a construction, not a mirror of external events.
