Gestalt Psychology

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What year did Gestalt psychology enter Germany?

1912

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What does Gestalt mean?

form or configuration

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What was the primary interest of Gestalt psychologists?

perception

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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

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What are the key interests of Gestalt psychology?

perception of motion and how people judge size and appearance of color under changes in illumination

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These interests led them to a number of ____

perception-centered interpretations of learning, memory and problem solving

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Gestalt psychologists also influenced key founders of modern psychology such as:

Kurt Lewin, Solomon Asch and Fritz Heider

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What did these psychologists do?

expanded on Gestalt principles to understand interpersonal phenomenon

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How did Asch extend the Gestalt notion?

from the simple case of object perception to the more complex concept of person perception