PSYC 3305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Solomon Asch, Fritz Heider, Optical Illusion
16 Apr 2018
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Psyc 3305 lecture 17 notes gestalt & social psychology. Wurzburg: held academic positions in prague, vienna, berlin, and frankfurt but then field to new. In 1924, he moved to the united states where he held academic positions at cornell, In 1913, he went on a voyage to the canary islands to study chimpanzees: the mentality of apes (1917) Insight: the ability to understand how the parts of a situation are related to one another: he took a very prestigious professorship at the university of berlin but left nazi. Germany for the united states in 1935: was a painstaking experimenter and also wrote extensively about gestalt psychology. Law of proximity: elements close to one another in space or time will be perceived as groups. Law of similarity: similar items will be perceived as groups. Law of continuity: a string of items will indicate where the next item in the string will be found.
