Chapter 5 Learning Theory of Gestalt Psychology o 5.1 About gestalt Psychology o While the behavioralistic attack on the introspective method of wundt and Titchener in 1913, a group of German psychologists began their attacks in 1912 o The entire gestalt movement started as the result of an insight Wertheimer had while riding a train heading for the rhineland. It occurred to him that if two lights blink on and off at a certain rate they give the observer the impression that one light is moving back and forth. Then, he conducted a experiment in his hotel room, and the results confirmed his idea. He called it the phi phenomenon( the illusion of motion or the apparent motion).Chapter 5 Learning Theory of Gestalt Psychology ⚫ 5.1 About Gestalt Psychology ⚫ While the behavioralistic attack on the introspective method of Wundt and Titchener in 1913, a group of German psychologists began their attacks in 1912. ⚫ The entire Gestalt movement started as the result of an insight Wertheimer had while riding a train heading for the Rhineland. It occurred to him that if two lights blink on and off at a certain rate, they give the observer the impression that one light is moving back and forth.Then, he conducted a experiment in his hotel room, and the results confirmed his idea. He called it the phi phenomenon(the illusion of motion or the apparent motion)