Schools of Psychology

what does Gestalt means?

• focuses on the assumption that the environment determines an individual's behavior

• the uniqueness of every individual

• "a structured, meaningful unity that stand out against a background in the organism/ environment field"

• each individual have inherent resources that enable us to deal with whatever life brings

who are the people established Gestalt Psychology?

• Kurt Koffka and Wolfgang Kohler

• Sigmund freud and Carl Jung

• Ludwig Binswanger and Viktor Frankl

• Robert Carkhuff and Thomas Gordon

The process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events.

• perception

• sensation

• bottom-up processing

• sensory adaptation

The historical movement associated with the statement “the whole may exceed the sum of its parts” is:

• Parapsychology

• Depth cues

• Functional psychology

• Gestalt psychology

Figures tend to be perceived as whole, complete objects, even if spaces or gaps exist in the representation, thus demonstrating the principle of:

• Closure
• Proximity
• Continuity
• Similarity

Which Gestalt Principle?

• Figure Ground Perception

• Closure

• Similarity

• Proximity

Which image pertains to similarity?

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Which image pertains to closure?

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What is Closure?

• Completing gaps within a figure in order to view the stimulus as a whole

• Simplifying a scene into figures and backgrounds

• The perception of objects based on similar features

• The perception of objects that are physically close together as belonging in a group

What is the Figure/Ground being displayed?

• Figure: Pillars

  Ground: Men

• Ground: Pillars

  Figure: Men

• Figure: The two faces

  Ground: The vase

• I'm not sure