PSYC 3400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Imaginary Audience, Personal Fable, Gestalt Psychology
30 Apr 2018
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Chapter 10 Lecture: Constructing Meaning with Piaget, Kelly and Ellis
1.) Gestalt Psychology: Perspective that emphasizes patterns, configurations and wholeness
as opposed to parts
a. The parts
1. Scheme: What there is in common among several different and analogous actions
2. Phenomenologist: Psychologist who derive their understanding of human
experience from people’s private experimental reports
3. Mind: Results from continuous process of self-constructive activity which is both
conscious and unconscious
4. Personality: Interlacing of schemes, patterns and structures
b. What makes a person go?
1. Assimilation: Taking in the surrounding environment
2. Accommodation: Re-modification of behavior as a result of experience
3. Equilibration: Process by which assimilation and accommodation balance each
other to achieve steady state
4. Telenomic: Goal oriented nature of development
5. Adaptation: Equilibration of assimilation and accommodation
c. Stages
1. Early childhood (2-7 years).
• Circular reactions: Simple pleasurable infant behaviors
• Magical thinking: illusion that one can control natural events through
thought
• Animistic thinking: assuming all natural objects are alone and have
feelings
• Perception bound: Believing things are exactly as they appear
• Willpower: Bolsters correct thinking and steers personality towards
gratification
2. Late childhood (7-11 years).
• Conservation: Ability to appreciate changeless nature of matter
• Reversibility: Ability to think forward and backward in time
• Classification, spatial reasoning, seriation
3. Adolescence (11 years-adulthood)
• Abstraction: Reasoning with words and symbols
• Imaginary audience: Feeling that one’s always on a stage
• Propositional reasoning: Ability to reason using propositions
• Personal fable: Sense of specialness and importance
d. Testability: Errors in how terms were defined and determined
2.) George Kelly
a. Main terms
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