ABSTRACT
The importance of the phi phenomenon is that it is different from the elements that cause it. The sensation of motion cannot be explained by analyzing each of the two lights flashing on and off; somehow the experience of motion emerges from the combination of the elements. For this reason, the members of the Gestalt school believed that although psychological experiences result from sensory elements, they are different from the sensory elements themselves. Gestalt psychology can be thought of as an attempt to apply field theory from physics to the problems of psychology. Roughly speaking, a field can be defined as a dynamic, interrelated system, any part of which influences every other part. The important thing about a field is that nothing in it exists in isolation. Gestalt psychologists utilized the concept of field on many levels.
