User:Madnel4/Gestalt psychology

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It could benefit from better organization and could be slimmed down. Many of the sections seem overdeveloped but perhaps better formatting could help with this as well. Overall it is fairly neutral but some portions contain less neutral language. Lead section is fine as is for now.

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Origin and History

- Layout needs improvement

Gestalt Therapy

- Section will either be deleted or moved. Considering changing to reflect applications of Gestalt psychology in psychotherapy/clinical settings and mentioning Gestalt Therapy. Does not need to have its own section like what currently exists.

Contributions

- Changing section heading (not sure to what yet)

- Subsections are not formatted correctly. Working on new format.

- Principles of Gestalt psychology may be separated into their own separate section.

Legacy

- May change section heading

- Formatting is fine, may switch order of subsections.

"The terms "structure" and "organization" were focal for the Gestalt psychologists. Stimuli were said to have a certain structure, to be organized in a certain way, and that it is to this structural organization, rather than to individual sensory elements, that the organism responds. When an animal is conditioned, it does not simply respond to the absolute properties of a stimulus, but to its properties relative to its surroundings. To use a favorite example of Köhler's, if conditioned to respond in a certain way to the lighter of two gray cards, the animal generalizes the relation between the two stimuli rather than the absolute properties of the conditioned stimulus: it will respond to the lighter of two cards in subsequent trials even if the darker card in the test trial is of the same intensity as the lighter one in the original training trials."

This section is plagiarized without a citation from this source 

'''Section above paraphrased: In accordance with Gestalt principles, the responsive tendencies of an organism to a stimulus are attributable to the systematic arrangement of the stimulus within its environment and not the isolated characteristics of the stimulus. '''