GESTALT

Question 1

True or False: Perception is often different from
reality

Answer 1

True

Question 2

True or False: The whole is less than the sum of
its parts

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Leads brains to believe that
stationary objects are moving

A. Gestalt Principle
B. Proximity
C. Phi Phenomenon
D. Continuity

Answer 3

C. Phi Phenomenon

Question 4

The theory that showed the importance of
the organizational process in
perception, learning, and problem
solving

Answer 4

Gestalt Psychology

Question 5

True or False: Gestalt Psychology supported the structuralist
perspective of Wilhelm Wundt

Answer 5

False

Question 6

Tendency to perceive
things that look similar to each other
as being part of the same group.

Answer 6

Similarity

Question 7

Human’s ability to
visually differentiate between an
object and its background.

Answer 7

Figure Ground

Question 8

Objects that are close to
each other are part of the same
grouping.

Answer 8

Proximity

Question 9

Tendency to complete
figures that are incomplete

Answer 9

Closure

Question 10

Tendency to perceive
things as simply as possible with a
continuous pattern rather than a
complex, broken-up pattern

Answer 10

Continuity

Question 11

Tendency to
perceive objects that are in a
common area or region as being in a
group

Answer 11

Common Region

Question 12

Motivation that comes from
the outside person

Answer 12

Extrinsic motivation

Question 13

Motivation that comes within the
person and is driven by interest

Answer 13

Intrinsic motivation

Question 14

The ability of the
subject to apply discriminations from
two separate stimuli to others

Answer 14

Transposition

Question 15

Seeing things as
simply, concise, and as symmetrical
as possible.

Answer 15

Law of Pragnanz