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Chapter 9 Flashcards

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form quality

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overall quality of some entity

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act psychology

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psychology should be the study of mental acts not mental contents

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apparent motion

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stationary stimuli seems to move at times

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approach- approach conflict

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conflict within a person, from having to make a choice between two postitive things

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avodiance avoidence conflict

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conflict within a person for having to make a choice between negative things

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phi phenomenon

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motion not really percived but illusion

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gestalt organizing principle

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summarize the way in which sensory phenomena become organized into whole meaningful figure

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figure ground

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sperarate whole figures from its backround

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proximity

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objects close belong together

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similarity

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things that look alike belong together

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good continuation

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organize perceptions in a smoothly flowing direction

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pragnanz

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tendency for our perception to mirror reality

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closure

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tendency to fill missing gaps to percive a who figure

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behavioral enviorment

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enviorment percived contrasted with physical enviorment

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geographical enviorment

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physical enviorment, contrasted with enviorment percived

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functional fixness

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only seeing an object in one way and not being able to use it in any other

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feild theory

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understanding behavior requires knowing all forces acting on a person

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life space

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persons enviorment that infulences a person

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topology

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math of nonqualitiative sparital gemoetry

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foreign hull

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all events outside someone life

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equilibrium

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all needs have been satisfied

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valence

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wether something is valued by a person or not

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vector

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direction of a desired goal

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differentiation

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childs life space become more difficult

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Dedifferentiation

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returnes to a primitve way of thinking

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