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Essay / Gestalt Psychology Essay - 1425
According to Swanson & Holton III (2001), Gestalt is the German term for configuration or organization. Swanson & Holton III (2001) argued that according to Gestalt psychologists, we as human beings do not see isolated stimuli but stimuli incorporated together in meaningful configurations. In other words, they see people, chairs, cars, trees and flowers, not lines and spots of color. According to Hergenhahn and Olson (1993), Gestaltists assume that people add something to experience that is not contained in sensory data and that we experience the world in meaningful wholes. This therefore indicates that learning involves moving from one whole to another. According to Swanson and Holton III (2001), words related to Gestalt psychology include introspection, meaning, closure, insight, life space, field theory, humanism, phenomenology, and theory relational. Furthermore, Swanson & Holton III (2001) added that the holistic view of individuals and their own need for holistic understanding contrasts sharply with a mechanistic and elemental view of human beings. According to Swanson & Holton III (2001), behavioral psychology relates to what is visible, and therefore behavior is identified as what is studied. According to the behavioral psychologists cited in Swanson and Holton III (2001), the individual's response is the only way in which he makes available his capacity, his experience and the present forces working on him. Thus, more introspection, more talk of instinctive behavior, and more attempts to study vague notions of the conscious or unconscious human mind (Swanson & Holton III, 2001). Additionally, words related to behaviorism include preparation, law effect, exercise, recency, frequency, stimulus, response, reinforcement, punishment, p...... middle of paper ...... indicates that the Breadth of competence is beneficial to the process of professional development and training of physicians which concerns the variety of learning opportunities. Professional and medical competence is important for medical interns because it helps to produce competent professionals who have acquired the skills, knowledge and expertise required for medical practice (Adewale et al., 2012). According to Marple (2007), cited in Manaf et al. (2011), competency indicators in medicine are essentially derived from an extensive research process aimed at assessing the qualities necessary for a physician to function effectively. As described in previous literature, important areas of professional and medical competence include “clinical” competence, “communication” competence, and “professional and personal” competence (McGill et al.., 2011; 2012)