Gestalt Psychology Explained

If you're interested in learning more about Gestalt psychology, then this video is for you! We'll discuss the theory in detail and provide a useful context for it. In this quick introduction to Gestalt Psychology, I explain who the Gestalt Psychologists (Wertheimer, Kohler, and Koffka) were and what the key elements of Gestalt Psychology are. After watching this video, you'll have a better understanding of how Gestalt psychology affects our perception of the world and how we interact with it. Gestalt psychology is a theory that has been used to explain a variety of phenomena, including perception, learning, and visual design.

✨ABOUT ME:
I received my Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. I joined the School of Psychology at the University of Queensland in Australia in 2007, where my research and teaching are focused on social neuroscience.

00:00 Introduction
00:33 Gestalt Therapy is not Gestalt Psychology
00:58 The Three Founders
01:23 Wertheimer and the Stroboscope
02:45 The Phi Phenomenon
03:24 Max Wertheimer
04:33 Wolfgang Köhler
06:50 Kurt Koffka
09:29 Key Element 1 Application of Field Theory
10:43 Key Element 2 Psychophysical Isomorphism
11:31 Key Element 3 Top Down vs. Bottom Up
12:19 Key Element 4 Perceptual Constancies & Gestalten
14:14 Legacy of Gestalt Psychology

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[socialneuro]

I'm curious about why people are learning about Gestalt Psychology. If have a moment, please leave me a comment about why you looked for this video. 🙂

[michellegerhardt]

Thank you so much for this video it is very helpful.
I'm a psychology student from Germany and the way our book explaines Gestalt Psychology is very difficult to understand

[pamelafrank]

Hello - thanks so much for this video! I'm happy to leave you note about why I looked for this video and am so grateful to you for making it: I am a student, and Gestalt was mentioned in the required reading. I am the type of student that looks up everything I'm not familiar with and have found youtube to be a great time saver in this endeavor, especially while studying. I must say that your video was the most helpful of all I found, and you spoke to it in the beginning: most others spoke to therapy & not psychology, and that's what I was looking for: an explanation of what Gestalt is and its history. Your explanation was most helpful. Thank you again!

[janevandenheuvel]

Thank you for this excellent concise explanation of the origins of Gestalt Psychology. I am an artist/photographer/film maker who is eager to learn new things, especially about composition and why one painting is more appealing to viewers than another. This is how I came across Molly Banks book ‘Picture This - How pictures work’. People like patterns, especially patterns that reflect those found in nature. Today I learned that its not so much the picture as how our brains are programmed that make a picture work. Thank you again. I will watch your longer lesson on this fascinating subject.

[blagger]

Thank you very much, the video was great, clearly and attractively explained. It has helped me a lot to make myself a general idea of Gestalt psychology, why it developed and its legacy.

[SeyedRoohollahMousavi]

Thank you for your great content. I am a student of data science, and in gestalt psychology was a big part of a lecture on data visualization course, which is about presenting the data. That's why I looked it up. Although what was presented in the lecture was very basic and simple, with the keyword: "the whole is more than its constituent parts"

[Denis]

I am more interested in learning Gestalt therapy as i am going through counselling. but it is always a good idea to expand and have and idea how Gestalt evolved into a therapeutic modality.
You must be from Canada originally or USA? Great academic lecture. I did a history of psy. 18 years ago during my BA nice to refresh it !

[maxheadrom]

It's interesting how they make analogies with the physics of the time that, in a way, correlate to current description of neurology. I question, Professor: why people don't remember their pre-school education? (education before age 6) I have a hard time explaining to people how important that period is (and why people who teach kids those ages should get the higher wages) ... I have a feeling it's because (I hope I'm correct) it's during that period that we acquire our gestalts and, therefore, the basis on which even memories are made. Well ... even if my understanding is incorrect ... thanks for the video!

[rashmiranaweera]

Thank you soo much for sharing your knowledge to the world and also I would like to write why did I follow the video I am a trainee teacher from a teacher traning college in Sri Lanka. In our syllabus we have to follow up the gestalt theory for Psychology. Again thank you soo much for sharing this video ❤

[cathyshao]

I am leaning about transpersonal psychology and applying a program at Naropa University, seems like this is an important topic of transpersonal psychology. Nice video! Thank you so much

[ammoneway]

Thanks for this great video, I'm interested in aptitudes and cognitive abilities Measurements and the history behind it, I've question about Johnson o'connor, where is his place in the psychology history, I didn't find books talk about him and his work in aptitudes testing, he is not academic but i think he is a pioneer, what do you think, your opinion is valuable for me.

[kuku]

The term gestalt is used in a lot of Japanese video games just because it sounds cool. I got curious and decided to look it up

[shubham_chandra]

I am from India. I looked for this video because it's in my course.

[irislyfe]

I'm preparing for a professional teaching exam