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Lightbulb Moment: You Should Use Gestalt Problem Solving!

By Mac Rusk

Getting Started:

The start of your college career! You made it a step further in your educational journey and now begins the real fun. You have most likely faced a number of problems that you have needed to solve along the way. Spoiler alert: You are going to face more! While you step into this new realm, you are undoubtedly going to come across more obstacles. Don’t worry, because I’ll give you some insight (wink wink) into a great way to solve the problems you’re going to come across. This method is called Gestalt problem solving and before you think to yourself what the sigma is that, I’ll tell you. Gestalt problem solving is reorganizing or thinking about the problem in a different way so you are able to come to that “lightbulb” moment you so desperately desire (1). 

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Perceptual Organizing Our School Work

By Zachary Briggs

As a business major at the college I am enrolled in, I initially anticipated my psychology course to not have any meaningful value to my life in the future. Do not… I repeat, do not approach this subject with that mindset. This semester I learned about many concepts within psychology that affect our lives daily such as sensory & short-term memory, long-term memory, attention, reasoning; the list can go on. One concept that was very intriguing to me and I would like to share my understanding and knowledge about is Perceptual Organization. Perceptual Organization is something we all use in our daily lives without even knowing as college students. We are using Perceptual Organization when studying for quizzes, finishing projects, taking tests, completing math problems, or even organizing our dorm rooms, we are constantly using Perceptual Organization.

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Get a New Perspective

By Cory Lauer

            Have you ever wondered what the best study methods are? This conundrum plagues many incoming and first year college students. But, something to be taken into consideration is how the information is presented on the page. Repetition is helpful in remembering material but presenting the material with other similar material and restructuring it into something easier to digest is paramount to better learn and remember the information. This is one of the goals of Gestalt psychology. Similar ideas and theories will be better associated when they are presented together, and each idea or theory will be better remembered if it is framed in a different manner. Because of this, utilizing Gestalt representation and restructuring will promote better study habits and increase the amount of information remembered. Continue reading “Get a New Perspective”