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What year did Gestalt psychology enter Germany?
1912
What does Gestalt mean?
form or configuration
What was the primary interest of Gestalt psychologists?
perception
What was the main idea of Gestalt psychology?
the whole is different than the sum of its parts because the perception of the whole depends on the relationship between the parts
What are the key interests of Gestalt psychology?
perception of motion and how people judge size and appearance of color under changes in illumination
These interests led them to a number of ____
perception-centered interpretations of learning, memory and problem solving
Gestalt psychologists also influenced key founders of modern psychology such as:
Kurt Lewin, Solomon Asch and Fritz Heider
What did these psychologists do?
expanded on Gestalt principles to understand interpersonal phenomenon
How did Asch extend the Gestalt notion?
from the simple case of object perception to the more complex concept of person perception