Exam 5: The Sensing and Perceiving Mind: From Kant through the Gestalt Psychologists

Eleanor Gibson's studies of the responses of visually inexperienced animals and human infants to the "visual cliff" seem to

Match the definition with the term. -complementary colors

Match the definition with the term. -the power (Stevens's)law

A major consequence of the adoption of the doctrine of physiological mechanism by Helmholtz and his fellow students was that they

Match the individual with the doctrine. -Psychophysics

The idea that all living things are imbued with an ultimately unanalyzable "life force" is the major tenet of what doctrine?

Match the definition with the term. -phenomenal world

Match the definition with the term. -physiological mechanism

Gestalt-trained psychologist __________ argued that every individual lives within a unique psychological field or __________,which is the totality of the individual's psychological situation at any given moment.

Match the definition with the term. -law of specific nerve energies

Who of the following was NOT a founder of the movement known as Gestalt psychology?

The inspiring idea that led most directly to Fechner's development of psychophysics was

Relative to Kant in his theory of visual perception,Helmholtz was more

Match the book with its author. -Helmholtz

Match the definition with the term. -noumenal world

A photograph providing an image identical to what is recorded by the eye would feature

Match the definition with the term. -intuitions

What important experiment did Helmholtz perform with severed frog legs?

Match the book with its author. -Koffka

Match the definition with the term. -perceptions