Gestalt

Question 1

Humans perceive things as wholes and the whole is more than the sum of its parts

Answer 1

holistic

Question 2

Life is best understood by knowing the subjective, internal rather than the objective, external

Answer 2

phenomenological

Question 3

Awareness is ever-changing and each moment is one of choice based on evolving awareness. We are the creators of our own destiny

Answer 3

existential and choice

Question 4

The path to wholeness and health is to interact with nature and with other people without losing one’s individuality

Answer 4

contact

Question 5

Organism must be seen in its environment

Answer 5

field theory

Question 6

seeing, hearing, smelling, touching, and moving. Interacting with nature and surroundings without losing one’s sense of individuality

Answer 6

Contact

Question 7

aspects of the individuals’ experience that are most salient at any moment

Answer 7

Figure/foreground

Question 8

aspects of the individual that they are not presently aware of

Answer 8

Ground/background

Question 9

aspects moving from background to foreground

Answer 9

Figure formation process

Question 10

stuck point, customary way of being does not work

Answer 10

Impasse

Question 11

aspects that move from back fore that are not completed or resolved

Answer 11

Unfinished business

Question 12

stereotypical and inauthentic

Answer 12

Phony layer

Question 13

fears keep us from seeing ourselves

Answer 13

Phobic layer

Question 14

we give up our power

Answer 14

Impasse layer

Question 15

we fully experience our deadness

Answer 15

Implosive layer

Question 16

we let go of phony roles

Answer 16

Explosive layer

Question 17

false distinction about different aspects of self
Past-present
Good-bad

Answer 17

Polarity

Question 18

superficial relation with the world (instead of aware and intimate)

Answer 18

Lack of contact

Question 19

blurring the differentiation between the self and the environment

Answer 19

Confluence

Question 20

uncritically accept others’ beliefs

Answer 20

Introjection

Question 21

disown certain aspects of ourselves by assigning them to the environment

Answer 21

Projection

Question 22

turning back on ourselves what we would like to do so someone/something else

Answer 22

Retroflection:

Question 23

process of distraction or veering off, so that it is difficult to maintain a sense of contact

Answer 23

Deflection

Question 24

Focus on:
Past
Reductionistic
Deterministic
Unconscious
Energy system seeking homeostasis
Biological compulsion

Answer 24

Freud

Question 25

Focus: 
Present
Holistic
Phenomenological
Disowned parts
Energy system seeking homeostasis 
Closure

Answer 25

Perls

Question 26

Focus on the present, rather than past or future

Answer 26

Unfinished situations from past are worked in terms of person’s present experience of them