PSYCH 1XX3 Lecture Notes - Subjective Constancy, Optical Illusion, Gestalt Psychology
19 Mar 2013
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Gestalt principle : the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. 1920s and 1930s, german psychologists studies how people perceive the world around them. Believed that people perceive the whole stimulus rather than each individual parts. The gestalt movement was in part a reaction to the structuralist approach in vogue at the time, which suggested that everything could be reduced to basic elements. Ex: the perception of movement you experience when watching a movie made by flashing slightly different static pictures every second. There isn"t continuous movement in or across any of the frames, but we could still perceive continuous movement as we watch the rapid sequence of still pictures. Motion is an emergent property of the sequence of pictures. The perception of the movie in its entirety, including all of the complex movement, is something more than the collection of thousands of still photographs.
