Gestalt Psychology
Nikki was walking around a department store shopping one day, and did not realize that the shirt she was wearing looked just like the shirts worn by employees. When a stranger asked, “do you work here,” she thought it was funny. The other customers’ assumption that Nikki was a store employee demonstrates the Gestalt principle of _______.
What is similarity?
________ refers to the way that sensory information is interpreted and consciously experienced; ________ refers to what happens when sensory information is detected by a sensory receptor.
What is Perception and sensation?
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April 8, 2025
This is not one of the structures that comprises the outer ear:
A. the basilar membrane
B. the pinna
C. the auditory canal
D. the eardrum
What is the basilar membrane?
This perceptual system allows Nancy to run without watching her feet and hit a baseball without focusing on her hands.
What is proprioception?
When a child works on a “connect the dots” puzzle, she can often see the completed work before she has finished all of the dots. Once there is enough visual information present, she’s able to perceive the completed picture even though it is still incomplete. Which Gestalt principle does this demonstrate?
What is closure?
The amplitude of a wave is the height of a wave as measured from the highest point on the wave________ to the lowest point on the wave ________.
What is a crest and a trough?
This nerve carries visual information from the retina to the brain.
What is the optic nerve?
How many woodchucks would chuck wood if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
2 possible answers!
All of them or none of them?
Felicia smacks her thumb with a hammer while building a doghouse. The sense of ________ provides her brain with information about the pain she feels.
What is nociception?
One principle of civil engineering is that when you design a highway you should have traffic flow in the same direction and avoid interruptions to that flow as much as possible. Exit ramps tend to be curved so that cars don’t have to stop rather than having 90-degree angles that force stops and starts. This is an application of which Gestalt principle?
What is (good) continuation?
________ amplitudes are associated with ________ sounds.
What is higher and louder?
In a person whose eyes work in the usual fashion, the ________ will focus images perfectly on a small indentation in the back of the eye known as the ________.
What is the lens and the fovea?
The auditory cortex, in which sound stimuli are processed for perception, is located in the ________ lobe.
What is the temporal lobe?
These are the two types of pain.
What is inflammatory (tissue) and neuropathic (nerve damage) pain?
If you watch a flock of birds flying overhead, each very close to the next one, you may perceive them as all being part of the same group. If they were all spaced very much apart, however, you may see them as individual birds not flying together. This distinction takes advantage of which Gestalt principle?
What is Proximity?
As you are talking to a friend on your cell phone, you might find that you can’t hear them because they are speaking very softly. If you ask them to “speak up,” from a physical perspective you are asking them to ________ of the sound waves they are producing.
What is increasing the amplitude?
This term describes the continuation of a visual sensation after removal of the stimulus.
What is afterimage?
Receptors on different portions of the basilar membrane are sensitive to sounds of different frequencies.
What is the theory of pitch perception?
This is the color of your team's button.
Look at your team button!
The 5 principles of Gestalt Psychology (DOUBLE JEOPARDY) for 1000 pts
What is the figure-ground relationship, law of continuity, principle of closure, proximity, and similarity?
Your ears receive sound waves and convert this energy into neural messages that travel to your brain and are processed as sounds. This is an example of ________.
What is transduction?
Light waves are first transmitted through the ________ at the front of the eye and enter an opening called the ________ before shining onto the retina.
What is the cornea and the pupil?
Ravon is deaf. He was born without the ability to hear, and has never experienced an auditory stimulus. When people write using “sound” type words like “loud,” “soft,” and “quiet,” he sometimes has difficulty understanding what they are trying to convey. Ravon has ________ deafness.
What is congenital deafness?
Name this condition - Ronaldo was born without the ability to experience pain, though he can perceive temperature differences and changes in pressure.
What is congenital analgesia?