Gestalt Flashcards
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What is the idea behind the term Gestalt Psychology?
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Noticing and describing the ways in which humans tend to shape ambiguous or incomplete stimuli into whole, coherent pictures.
Gestalt Psychology focused on how we perceive whole objects.
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What does Gestalt mean?
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‘Form’ in German
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What is emergence?
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The ability to perceive a whole without first noticing its part
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Define reification.
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The mind’s ability to fill in an implied shape
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Explain the Law of Similarity.
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People tend to group similar items together.
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Explain the Law of proximity.
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People tend to group close items together.
