Describe the gestalt position on learning

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Describe the Gestalt position on learning, including (a) the basis of trial and error learning, (b) insightful learning, and (c) transposition (contrasting this with Spence's explanation). Describe the Gestalt position with respect to problem solving as reflected in Wertheimer's 1945 book Productive Thinking. Outline the Gestalt approach to memory.

Pls reference Hergenhahn's "An Introduction to the History of Psychology".

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