PSY 370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fritz Perls, Gestalt Psychology, David Buss
10 Feb 2019
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Cognitive aspects of psychology: cognition information processing, the way we think, perception c, attention. Interpretation: three levels (larson & buss, perception i. This baby is about the age of my (child, niece, etc. ), who is just learning to roll over and babbles at me when they are happy. ii. They are likely rolling over and babbling. : fritz perls, gestalt psychology i. ii. Cannot separate parts of a person, everything must be included when determining personality: humanistic but roots in psychoanalytic theory i. ii. Take info and put meaning on it based on experiences from our past. Based on a frame of reference from past experiences: gestalt psychology, gestalt perceptual figure, kurt lewin"s field theory, life space i. Is the triangle shown in the image of constructed in the mind of the viewer i. All internal and external forces, and their relationships to one another: e. g. , family, religion, work, etc, separate or continuous, contemporaneous causation i.
