Practice question · Select all that apply
Select every statement that is TRUE about Gestalt psychology.
Hints
- Two options contradict Gestalt's core - one about the whole, one about insight.
- The whole is DIFFERENT from the sum, and insight is SUDDEN, not incremental.
Show the answer
- A. The phi phenomenon shows motion the individual stimuli do not contain.
- C. Insight learning appears as a sudden reorganization of a whole problem.
- E. Closure is the tendency to fill gaps to perceive a complete shape.
Why
The phi phenomenon, closure, and sudden insight are all true. The whole is different from (not equal to) the sum of its parts, and insight is sudden rather than incremental trial-and-error - so those two are false.
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