In a learning environment, the Gestalt Theory applies to problem solving and perception. However, it can be used in all aspects of education. A perfect example was provided by Wertheimer himself, when he asked children to find the area of a parallelogram.

A gestalt language processor learns language in chunks of words rather than one single word at a time. For example, rather than analytic language learning of “car”, to “red car”, then eventually “It’s a red car!”.

For example, by uttering the word ‘Ma’ or ‘Mom’, the child gets response from his mother. By getting repeated response from mother, the word ‘Ma’ or ‘Mom’ becomes conditioned with the image of his/her mother.