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UNIT I
PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATION

Some of other characteristics

• Insight leads to change in perception
• Insight is sudden
• The organism tends to perceive a pattern or organization
• Understanding plays important role in insight learning

• It is related with higher order animals and not with inferior animals
• Age influences insight learning. Adults are better learner than children
• Past experience a perceptual organization is important in perception
• Some psychologist also relate insight learning with associative learning

GESTALT LAWS

 It was founded by German thinkers Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Kholer and Kurt Koffka
 It focused on how people interpret the world.
 Gestalt perspective formed partially as a response to the structuralism of Wilhelm Wundt,
who focused on breaking down mental events and experiences to the smallest elements.
 Gestalt psychologists developed a set of principles to explain perceptual organization or
how smaller objects are grouped to form larger ones.
 This much like heuristics, which are mental shortcut for solving problems.

DIFFERENT GESTALT LAWS

1.) Law of Similarity

 Suggests that things tend to appear grouped together. Groupings can occur in both visual
and auditory stimuli.

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