Events that occur close together in space or time are generally perceived as belonging together. Gestalt psychologists refer to this as ________________?

Related Mcqs:

1. Babar was at a football game, and even though people wearing green jackets were spread fairly evenly throughout the stands, he still perceived all the people in green jackets as a single group of visiting fans. Babar’s perception is most consistent with the Gestalt principle of:

   A. Constancy
   B. Similarity
   C. Closure
   D. Proximity

2. Historically, gestalt psychologists focused mainly on problems dealing with _______________?

   A. development
   B. learning
   C. motivation
   D. perception

3. Gestalt psychologists emphasized that ______________________?

   A. perception is the same as sensation
   B. we learn to perceive the world through experience
   C. the whole is more than the sum of its parts
   D. sensation has no effect on perception

4. The organizational principles identified by Gestalt psychologists best illustrate the importance of:

   A. perceptual constancy
   B. perceptual adaptation
   C. visual capture
   D. top-down processing

5. The organizational principles identified by Gestalt psychologists best illustrate the importance of:

   A. perceptual constancy
   B. perceptual adaptation
   C. visual capture
   D. top-down processing

6. Clinical psychologists tend to endorse behaviorism more strongly, and counseling psychologists tend to endorse which of the following?

   A. Eclectic approach
   B. Psychodynamic
   C. Humanistic
   D. Biological

7. The gestalt experience of perceiving an array of equally spaced dots as rows and columns is attributed to ________________?

   A. wholistic functions
   B. continuity
   C. proximity
   D. additive vision

8. A Gestalt is best described as a/an ________________?

   A. binocular cue
   B. interposition
   C. perceptual adaptation
   D. organized whole

9. The fact that a pinpoint down the railroad track is perceived by a person as a diesel engine is an example of ________________?

   A. continuity
   B. closure
   C. size constancy
   D. motion parallax

10. Adopted children’s similarity to their biological parents is generally attributed to_____________; adopted children’s similarity to their adoptive parents is generally attributed to____________________.

    A. heredity; the environment
    B. the environment; heredity
    C. the environment; the environment
    D. heredity; heredity