Most prominent member of Gestalt Psychology

Psychology is the scientific study of human and animal behavior and it includes the application of this science to different problems of human beings.

• The psychologists, in the beginning, had an empirical approach to understand the thinking, attention, imagery, etc. The experiments were done to study the mind and mental experiences.
• Gradually, different schools of psychology came up with different viewpoints about the nature of the study of psychology. They emphasized that the focus should be on the study of behavior rather than the mind.

Key Points

• German psychologists Wertheimer, Kohler, Koffka, and Lewin have studied the nature of perception and are the leaders of gestalt psychology. Wertheimer is considered the father of gestalt psychology.
• "Gestalt" is a German noun for which there is no English word equivalent. The nearest English translation of "Gestalt" is "configuration" or more simply "an organized whole". Gestalt psychologists consider the process of learning as a gestalt - an organized whole.

Important Points 

Gestalt theory of learning:

• It is primarily concerned with the nature of perception. According to it, an individual perceives the thing as a whole.
• A thing is perceived as a relationship within a field that includes the thing and its complex background incorporating their previous experiences and purposes.
• While learning, a learner always perceives the situation as a whole and after seeing and evaluating the different relationships intelligently takes a proper decision.
• The child first perceives the situation as a whole and then evaluates its parts that imply that they first learn anything as a whole and then learn their part.
• For example, children in their initial stage of learning, recognize all types of birds saying simply "birds" and afterward they start to distinguish between different types of birds i.e., sparrow, parrot, eagle, etc.

Hence, it could be concluded that all of these are the most prominent members of Gestalt Psychology.