ace shows varying degrees of differentiation depending on the amount and kind of experience the person has accumulated. Infants lack experience and have few differentiated regions in the life space; adults show a more complex and differentiated life space based on past experience (Schultz & Schultz, 1992, pp. 404-406).
Wolfgang Kohler (1887-1967) wrote books on Gestalt psychology and physical gestalts; he was a spokesman for Gestalt psychology. He believed that psychology must ally itself with physics. He studied behavior in chimpanzees and wrote The Mentality of Apes. Gestalt principles of learning are expressed in this research. Studies revealed evidence of insight, the spontaneous and immediate understanding of relationships. Insight studies supported Gestalt molar conception of behavior; learning was perceived as involving a reorganization or restructuring of the psychological environment (Schultz & Schultz, 1992, pp. 383-385; &
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