Exam 4: The Sensing and Perceiving Mind: From Kant through the Gestalt Psychologists

Helmholtz's experiment with the frog's nerve indicated that the speed of the nervous impulse was:

An important concept from physics with which Kohler tried to integrate Gestalt psychology was:

The smallest intensity of a stimulus that can be reliably detected,used by Fechner as the "zero point" in his scale of subjective intensities,is called the:

For stimuli such as electric shocks,where the jnd's become smaller with higher intensities,the psychophysical relationship is best expressed by:

When subjects in Helmholtz's experiment learned to adjust their responses to the distorted images produced by prismatic glasses,they illustrated:

To Helmholtz,the law of Conservation of Energy implied that:

In Helmholtz's theory,an important hypothetical process underlying such perceptual phenomena as depth perception was called:

The "squareness" of a square and the musical melody are both examples of:

Pairs of colored lights which produce a sensation of white light when mixed together are called:

According to Helmholtz's analysis of the eye,the sharpness of focus within the visual field is:

According to the Gestalt psychologists,our perceptual processes tend to:

A notion which David Hume's skeptical philosophy challenged,and which Immanuel Kant tried to rescue in his philosophical reformulation,was:

When you press gently on the side of your eyeball and experience the visual sensation of light,you illustrate:

As you read this page,the words you are aware of constitute the ___________________,and the page on which they are printed is the ______________________.

Why was Fechner important in the development of a scientific,experimental psychology?

Helmholtz divided his discussions of vision and audition into sections devoted to which three of the following general categories?

According to Kant,the ______________world consists of "things-in themselves" which exist independently of human experience and reason.

Kohler's principle that "psychological facts and the underlying events in the brain resemble each other in all their structural characteristics" is known as the:

Ernst Weber is important for introducing which of these concepts?

According to Helmholtz's distinction,the discontinuous patches of colored light you experience when viewing a landscape are your ____________________,while the "trees," "grass," and "sky," etc.,you are aware of are_________________.