Gestalt & Insight Learning
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Under the Gestalt theory of learning (Theory of Insight), during problem-solving, the process of the sudden flash of brilliance or the 'Aha! Experience', upon deep analysis of the brain's mechanism of 'Cognitive Restructuring' of the total situation, which of the following statements most authentically clarifies the philosophical and psychological nature of this theory?
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According to Gestalt psychology (whose prominent proponents were Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka, and Wolfgang Köhler), learning or problem-solving is not the result of a mechanical process or 'trial and error', but is based on the direct understanding of the whole form (Gestalt) of a situation and 'insight'. Köhler's experiments on chimpanzees proved that when an organism perceives all parts or elements of a problem simultaneously and reorganizes its cognitive field by understanding the interrelationships between them, a sudden solution ('Aha! Experience') is achieved.
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