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  • 1. What is the relationship between Gestalt psychology and Gestalt therapy?
A) Gestalt therapy is the foundation of Gestalt psychology.
B) They are only peripherally linked.
C) Gestalt psychology is a sub-branch of Gestalt therapy.
D) They are identical fields of study.
  • 2. Who were the founders of Gestalt therapy?
A) Kurt Goldstein and Mary Henle
B) Fritz and Laura Perls
C) Max Wertheimer and Kurt Koffka
D) Wolfgang Köhler and Fritz Perls
  • 3. Which neurologist did the founders of Gestalt therapy work with?
A) Max Wertheimer
B) Wolfgang Köhler
C) Kurt Goldstein
D) Kurt Koffka
  • 4. What was Laura Perls's professional background before developing Gestalt therapy?
A) She was a traditional lab researcher.
B) She was a physicist.
C) She was solely a neurologist.
D) She was a Gestalt psychologist and a psychoanalyst.
  • 5. Why did Laura Perls initially prefer not to use the term 'Gestalt' for the new therapy?
A) It was legally trademarked by another institution.
B) She wanted to emphasize its existential roots.
C) She disliked the name for aesthetic reasons.
D) She thought Gestalt psychologists would object to it.
  • 6. What was Mary Henle's opinion regarding Fritz Perls's work?
A) She thought it was identical to the principles of Koffka.
B) She praised it as a perfect evolution of the field.
C) She considered it the only valid application of the theory.
D) She believed it had no substantive relation to scientific Gestalt psychology.
  • 7. According to the text, which form of psychotherapy is consistently based on Gestalt psychology?
A) Gestalt theoretical psychotherapy
B) Existential therapy
C) Gestalt therapy
D) Psychoanalytic therapy
  • 8. What was the main objective of traditional scientific methodology at the beginning of the 20th century, according to the text?
A) To divide the object of study into separately analyzable elements.
B) To study consciousness as a complete, indivisible whole.
C) To ignore cerebral activity.
D) To focus exclusively on natural situations.
  • 9. What does the principle of totality assert?
A) Conscious experience must be considered globally.
B) Experimental lab conditions are superior to natural ones.
C) Cerebral activity is unrelated to consciousness.
D) The mind is composed of separate, static parts.
  • 10. According to Gestalt psychology, how should a part be understood?
A) Its nature depends on the whole in which it is embedded.
B) As a sensory quality unrelated to the system.
C) As an independent element with its own properties.
D) As the sum of its chemical components.
  • 11. How did Koffka describe the whole-part relationship?
A) The whole is irrelevant to the parts.
B) The whole is less than the sum of its parts.
C) The whole is something else than the sum of its parts.
D) The whole is exactly equal to the sum of its parts.
  • 12. What does the principle of psychophysical isomorphism hypothesize?
A) That movement is an illusion.
B) That psychology should not be a science.
C) The independence of the mind from physical matter.
D) A correlation between conscious experience and cerebral activity.
  • 13. What is the focus of phenomenon experimental analysis?
A) Focusing solely on sensory qualities.
B) Rejecting laboratory experiments entirely.
C) Reducing complexity through division.
D) Taking phenomena as the starting point for research.
  • 14. What does the biotic experiment establish?
A) The removal of the subject from real conditions.
B) The need to conduct experiments in natural situations.
C) The focus on theoretical rather than practical research.
D) The need for highly controlled, sterile laboratory conditions.
  • 15. Which of the following did the Gestaltists document and demonstrate empirically?
A) The effectiveness of psychoanalysis
B) Biological evolution
C) The existence of the soul
D) Perceptual constancy
  • 16. What is the phi phenomenon an example of?
A) A critique of existentialism.
B) An experiment about psychophysical isomorphism.
C) A discovery regarding the perception of movement.
D) A theory about memory formation.
  • 17. What does the German word 'Gestalt' mean?
A) Mind
B) Whole
C) Form
D) Structure
  • 18. What is 'phi motion' as defined by Wertheimer?
A) Pure phenomenal motion
B) The mechanical rotation of bars
C) Physical motion of objects
D) The movement of light in a vacuum
  • 19. Who introduced the concept of 'Gestalt-qualität'?
A) Wolfgang Köhler
B) Christian von Ehrenfels
C) Kurt Koffka
D) Max Wertheimer
  • 20. What was the dominant view in psychology that Gestaltists rejected?
A) Structuralism
B) Behaviorism
C) Functionalism
D) Psychoanalysis
  • 21. Which term describes the view that complex ideas arise from the association of simpler ideas?
A) Configurationism
B) Associationism
C) Sensationalism
D) Atomism
  • 22. What was the primary finding of Köhler's research on chimpanzees?
A) Animals learn through incremental reinforcement
B) Animals only learn via association
C) Animals are incapable of complex problem solving
D) Animals learn by sudden insight
  • 23. What is the English translation for the German word 'Sinn' mentioned by Koffka?
A) Significance, value, or meaning
B) Experimental observation
C) Sensory impression
D) Structure or form
  • 24. Which of these is a key principle of Gestalt systems?
A) Abstraction
B) Emergence
C) Isolation
D) Deduction
  • 25. Which term describes the constructive aspect of perception where we see more information than the actual stimulus?
A) Reification
B) Multistability
C) Emergence
D) Invariance
  • 26. What is the tendency for ambiguous perceptions to switch between interpretations known as?
A) Multistability
B) Reification
C) Emergence
D) Prägnanz
  • 27. Which principle allows for the recognition of objects regardless of rotation, translation, or scale?
A) Reification
B) Prägnanz
C) Invariance
D) Multistability
  • 28. What does the German word 'Prägnanz' translate to?
A) Pithiness
B) Ambiguity
C) Perception
D) Complexity
  • 29. Which of the following is an example of multistable perception?
A) Elastic deformation
B) Necker cube
C) Illusory contours
D) Symmetry
  • 30. What kind of contours are treated by the visual system as 'real' in the context of reification?
A) Physical contours
B) Geometric contours
C) Illusory contours
D) Invisible contours
  • 31. According to the law of Prägnanz, human perception is biased towards which of the following?
A) Simplicity
B) Randomness
C) Chaos
D) Complexity
  • 32. Who defined principles explaining how humans perceive objects based on similarity, proximity, and continuity?
A) Wertheimer
B) Rubin
C) Escher
D) Marr
  • 33. Invariance allows for object recognition despite which of the following?
A) Lack of visual stimulus
B) Total darkness
C) Elastic deformations
D) Increased brightness
  • 34. Which psychologist is mentioned as having provided alternate computational theories of vision?
A) Escher
B) Wertheimer
C) Rubin
D) David Marr
  • 35. Which of the following does the law of Prägnanz describe as desirable in perception?
A) Fragmentation
B) Complexity
C) Orderliness
D) Distortion
  • 36. In the example of the law of proximity, how many total circles were used to illustrate the concept?
A) 72
B) 18
C) 36
D) 12
  • 37. The law of proximity is frequently utilized in which professional field?
A) Mathematical modeling
B) Architectural drafting
C) Advertising logos
D) Sound engineering
  • 38. In the law of similarity example provided, how many circles are shaded dark?
A) 18
B) 6
C) 72
D) 36
  • 39. What pattern is formed by the light and dark circles in the law of similarity example?
A) A large circle
B) Two diagonal lines
C) Three vertical columns
D) Six horizontal lines
  • 40. Which company is specifically mentioned as using the law of closure in their logo?
A) IBM
B) Google
C) Microsoft
D) Apple
  • 41. In the law of closure example, the IBM logo is described as consisting of what?
A) A series of dots
B) Curved geometric shapes
C) Vertical red lines
D) Horizontal blue lines
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