The German word “Gestalt” means ____________?

Related Mcqs:

1. Gestalt psychology taking its name from the German word ‘Gestal’ which literally means _________?

   A. World
   B. Whole
   C. A part
   D. Whole vs part

2. A student who has studied German in high school, takes a course in French in college and now has trouble remembering the German. This is an example of the effects of __________________?

   A. retroactive interference
   B. proactive interference
   C. state-dependent learning
   D. encoding specificity

3. Gestalt is a _____________ word that means organized whole?

   A. German
   B. French
   C. Latin
   D. Spanish

4. The word psychology is derived from two_______words ‘Psyche’ and ‘Logos’. Psyche means soul and Logos means science.

   A. English
   B. Chinese
   C. Hindi
   D. Greek

5. The central concept in Gestalt therapy is_____________?

   A. Awareness
   B. Self-fulfillment
   C. Self-control
   D. Desensitization

6. What is not one of Gestalt Psychology’s five laws of form perception?

   A. closure
   B. similarity
   C. proximity
   D. relative size

7. What would Gestalt psychologist say is reversing in a reversible figure, such as the vase-faces figure in your textbook?

   A. figure-ground relations
   B. perception of similarity
   C. good continuation
   D. border and texture

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

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

9. 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

10. We often a series of dots on a printed form as a “solid” line because of the Gestalt principle of:

    A. figure – ground
    B. symmetry
    C. similarity
    D. closure