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Why did Gestalt psychology fail to take in the US?
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American psychologists viewed gestalt psychology to address mainly perception
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Why did the gestaltists oppose wundt?
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Gestalt psychologist rejected wndt's and titchener's attempts to reduce consciousness to its basic elements.
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What does the word gestalt mean?
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Shape or form
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What is isomorphism?
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The doctrine that there is a correspondence between psychological or conscious experience and the underlying brain experience.
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Who came up with field theory?
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Lewin's system using the concept of fields of force to explain behavior in terms of one's field of social influences.
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According to kohler, trial and error learning could be remedied how?
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Insight
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Apparent motion is?
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Illusion of movement
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What is the zeigarnik effect?
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The tendency to recall uncompleted tasks more than completed tasks,
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Which gestaltist, who wasn't jewish, demanded reinstatement of his jewish colleague?
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Kohler
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What got wertheimer interested in perception?
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Noticed apparent motion while traveling on a train.
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What did kohler discover in his work with apes?
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Their ability to devise and use simple tools and build simple structures
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Who was the father of american psychiatry?
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Benjamin Rush
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Who was responsible for the iceberg analogy of the consciousness and unconsciousness often used to describe freudian psychology?
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Gustav fechner
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Who suggested the concept of monads?
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Gottfried wilhelm leibnitz
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Who is usually credited as being the first to release asylum inmates from their bonds?
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Phillipe pinel
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