1 - Gestalt Psychology Flashcards
Proposed that psychology study the act of experiencing
Franz Brentano
Spatial patters: Space-form and Time-form
Argued that our perception of an object foes not change even if our orientation to it changes
Ernst Mach
Gestalt qualitäten (form qualities)
- experience that cannot be explained as combinations of sensory elements
Christian von Ehrenfels
Student under Carl Stumpf, who studied with Koffka and Köhler
William James
An approach to knowledge based on an unbiased description of immediate experience as it occurs, not analyzed or reduced to elements.
Phenomenology
Regions or spaces traversed by lines of force, such as of a magnet or electric current
Fields of force
The illusion that two stationary flashing lights are moving from one place to another
Phi phenomenon
A quality of wholeness or completeness in perceptual experience that does not vary even when the sensory elements change
Perceptual constancy
Inmediate apprehension or cognition
Apparently spontaneous apprehension or understanding of relationships
Insight
The doctrine that there is a correspondence between psychological or conscious experience and the underlying brain experience
Isomorphism
Kurt Lewin’s system using the concept of fields of force to explain behavior in terms of one’s field of social influences
Field theory
The tendency to recall uncompleted tasks more easily than completed tasks
Zeigarnik effect
