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Wolfgang Kohler Gestalt Psychology Today By Wolfgang Köhler In this piece Kohler talks about certain schools of psychology (Especially Behaviorism) and other sciences, while talking about the new theories in Gestalt psychology. He begins by talking about the history of Gestalt psychology and mentions how some of the history is generally unknown. He points out how Gestalt psychologists have established certain qualities of the components of sensations. He does this as a precursor to the view that perceptual situations do not solely have independent components. He then begins to describe how interactions are taking place all around us and it is not that important to simply find each independent part of what we perceive, but rather view events as a whole. Kohler mentions many names that have contributed to these theories that are being discussed now. He proposes that the way psychologists have looked at perception and sensation is a bore. The way it should be looked at is that human life is dynamic and we need to look at the bigger picture. Kohler then mentions the American Gestalt psychologists and their interest in physics and how their work helped change the view on some natural psychology, gestalt, about, kohler, psychologists, theories, should, part, mentions, essay, begins, whole, view, rather, discussion, discuss, certain, work, way, today, thought, talks, talking, simply, sciences, names, makes, looked, informative, independent, history, goes, found, examples, each