Exam 9: The Paths of Gestalt Psychology

What does the term, gestalt mean? Explain in reference to your experience.

Identify the term standing for the observable fact of pure motion when two images are projected in succession. (This is also a perceptual illusion in which two stationary but alternately flashing lights appear to be a single light moving from one location to another).

In 1913, right before the war, Köhler was sent to conduct research on animal cognition in Tenerife (the largest of the Canary Islands off the northwestern coast of Africa).

After the end of the civil war in Spain in the late 1930s, the regime of General Franco imposed a theological, scholastic framework on Spanish psychology. It was imperative that psychologists remain true Catholics and fight against inappropriate tendencies in life.

Topology is the complex study of the individual mistakes and setbacks.

A method introduced by Kurt Lewin to look at the factors or forces influencing an individual's behavior in a particular situation. Every act can be viewed as an interplay of forces. What was the name of this method?

Köhler was sent to conduct research on animal cognition in Tenerife. What kind of animals did he study?

The fundamental assumption of Gestalt psychology is:

In Lewin's system, this is a finitely structured space; its parts are composed of certain regions; direction and distance within this space are defined as paths. What is its name?

As some observers joked, he did not appear to them as a "classic" German professor: formal, dry, and incomprehensible. Who was he?

Gestalt has several meanings including "value" "price," "tag," or "label."

What is the term for a figure such as the Rubin vase that can you can see either as a white vase on a black background, or black profiles of two human faces on a white background?

Who were the main "actors" in Gestalt psychology and what biographical facts did they share in common?

What were the major differences between Lewin's research and the studies of Koffka and Köhler?

In Germany under Nazis, professors, especially those suspected of independent thinking, were required to take a public oath of loyalty to Adolf Hitler.

The Zeigarnik effect was described based on several studies of:

What is the term for the correlated phenomena that people experience and the underlying processes in the brain?

The formula B = ƒ(P, E) was first proposed by:

The terms, authoritarian , democratic, and laissez-faire were used to describe:

Level of aspiration is the degree of difficulty of the goal toward which a person is striving.