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| - configuration, form, holistic, structure, and pattern |
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| Werthheimer's REproductive thinking |
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| routine reproduction of familiar solutions that result in blind conclusions with no sense of direction |
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| Werthheimer's productive thinking |
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| results in new ideas, breakthroughs, insights that make a difference |
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perception of movement
how? activation of lights placed close together |
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| phi phenomenon as an example of gestalts principle of...? |
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| we see the whole differently than sum of its parts |
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| Gestalt principle: figure-ground |
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tendency to see something as standing out and other things a forming background
[image]
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| Gestalt principle: proximity/nearness |
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tendency to group figures that are close together
[image] |
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| gestalt principle: closure |
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tendency to mentally complete that which is incomplete (fill-in/close gaps)
[image]
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| gestalt principle: similarity |
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tendency to group similar items
[image] |
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| gestalt principle: good continuation |
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tendency to mentally see a continuation, even if it is not directly apparent
[image][image] |
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| gestalt principle: common fate |
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tendency to group lines that continue in established directions
[image] |
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idea that there is a structural correspondence between experience and underlying brain processes
= having same appearance/form |
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| isomorphism & mind-body problem |
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isomorphism is the Gestalt perspective on it
- if we have an experience, we may also expect certain brain processes to come with it |
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| lewin's Field Theory emphasized: |
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| interdependence of person AND enviornment |
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B= f(p,e)
behavior is a function of person & environment |
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| needs are associated with tension, and satisfaction of a need is associate with the dissipation of tension |
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| tendency to recall uncompleted tasks better than completed tasks |
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| Next-generation gestaltists |
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Restorff
Duncker
Asch
Sherif |
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| von Restorff effect: increased likelihood of recall for distinctive items on a list |
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cognition
learning
personality
social psychology |
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autokinetic effect: light appears to move in the dark
(boys camp) |
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