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Gestalt psychology, the Glossary

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Index Gestalt psychology

Gestalt psychology, gestaltism, or configurationism is a school of psychology and a theory of perception that emphasises the processing of entire patterns and configurations, and not merely individual components.[1]

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  1. 113 relations: Albert Bregman, Algorithm, Amodal perception, Auditory scene analysis, Augusto Garau, Carl Stumpf, Cartography, Christian von Ehrenfels, Classical mechanics, Cognitive grammar, Cognitive psychology, Computational neuroscience, Correlation, Cybernetics, David Hartley (philosopher), David Hume, David Marr (neuroscientist), Edgar Rubin, Edmund Husserl, Edward B. Titchener, Edward Thorndike, Egregore, Emergence, Empiricism, Encyclopædia Britannica, Ernst Mach, Fidelity, Form perception, Fritz Perls, Functional fixedness, Gabriele von Wartensleben, Geometry, Gestalt theoretical psychotherapy, Gestalt therapy, Gestaltzerfall, Graz School, Halo effect, Hans Wallach, Hermann Friedmann, Hermann von Helmholtz, Holism in science, Human, Human brain, Illusion, Illusory contours, Immanuel Kant, Impossible trident, Isomorphism (Gestalt psychology), Ivan Pavlov, James J. Gibson, ... Expand index (63 more) »

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Albert Bregman

Albert Stanley Bregman (September 15, 1936 – May 18, 2023) was a Canadian academic and researcher in experimental psychology, cognitive science, and Gestalt psychology, primarily in the perceptual organization of sound.

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Algorithm

In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm is a finite sequence of mathematically rigorous instructions, typically used to solve a class of specific problems or to perform a computation.

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Amodal perception

Amodal perception is the perception of the whole of a physical structure when only parts of it affect the sensory receptors. Gestalt psychology and Amodal perception are perception.

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Auditory scene analysis

In perception and psychophysics, auditory scene analysis (ASA) is a proposed model for the basis of auditory perception.

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Augusto Garau

Augusto Orazio Vittorio Garau (1923 in Bolzano – 2010 in Milan) was an Italian artist, theorist of color, and professor.

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Carl Stumpf

Carl Stumpf (21 April 1848 – 25 December 1936) was a German philosopher, psychologist and musicologist.

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Cartography

Cartography (from χάρτης chartēs, 'papyrus, sheet of paper, map'; and γράφειν graphein, 'write') is the study and practice of making and using maps. Gestalt psychology and Cartography are graphic design.

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Christian von Ehrenfels

Christian von Ehrenfels (also Maria Christian Julius Leopold Freiherr von Ehrenfels; 20 June 1859 – 8 September 1932) was an Austrian philosopher, and is known as one of the founders and precursors of Gestalt psychology.

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Classical mechanics

Classical mechanics is a physical theory describing the motion of objects such as projectiles, parts of machinery, spacecraft, planets, stars, and galaxies.

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Cognitive grammar

Cognitive grammar is a cognitive approach to language developed by Ronald Langacker, which hypothesizes that grammar, semantics, and lexicon exist on a continuum instead of as separate processes altogether.

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Cognitive psychology

Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning.

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Computational neuroscience

Computational neuroscience (also known as theoretical neuroscience or mathematical neuroscience) is a branch of neuroscience which employs mathematics, computer science, theoretical analysis and abstractions of the brain to understand the principles that govern the development, structure, physiology and cognitive abilities of the nervous system.

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Correlation

In statistics, correlation or dependence is any statistical relationship, whether causal or not, between two random variables or bivariate data.

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Cybernetics

Cybernetics is the transdisciplinary study of circular processes such as feedback systems where outputs are also inputs.

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David Hartley (philosopher)

David Hartley (baptized 21 June 1705 Old Style; died 28 August 1757) was an English philosopher and founder of the Associationist school of psychology.

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David Hume

David Hume (born David Home; – 25 August 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist who was best known for his highly influential system of empiricism, philosophical skepticism and metaphysical naturalism.

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David Marr (neuroscientist)

David Courtenay Marr (19 January 1945 – 17 November 1980), from the International Encyclopaedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, by Shimon Edelman and Lucia M. Vaina; published 2001-01-08; archived at Cornell University; retrieved 2021-07-21 was a British neuroscientist and physiologist.

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Edgar Rubin

Edgar John Rubin (September 6, 1886 – May 3, 1951) was a Danish psychologist/phenomenologist, remembered for his work on figure-ground perception as seen in such optical illusions like the Rubin vase.

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Edmund Husserl

Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl (8 April 1859 – 27 April 1938) was an Austrian-German philosopher and mathematician who established the school of phenomenology.

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Edward B. Titchener

Edward Bradford Titchener (11 January 1867 – 3 August 1927) was an English psychologist who studied under Wilhelm Wundt for several years.

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Edward Thorndike

Edward Lee Thorndike (August 31, 1874 – August 9, 1949) was an American psychologist who spent nearly his entire career at Teachers College, Columbia University.

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Egregore

An egregore (also spelled egregor) is a concept in Western esotericism of a non-physical entity or thoughtform that arises from the collective thoughts and emotions of a distinct group of individuals.

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Emergence

In philosophy, systems theory, science, and art, emergence occurs when a complex entity has properties or behaviors that its parts do not have on their own, and emerge only when they interact in a wider whole. Gestalt psychology and emergence are holism.

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Empiricism

In philosophy, empiricism is an epistemological view which holds that true knowledge or justification comes only or primarily from sensory experience and empirical evidence.

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Encyclopædia Britannica

The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.

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Ernst Mach

Ernst Waldfried Josef Wenzel Mach (18 February 1838 – 19 February 1916) was an Austrian physicist and philosopher, who contributed to the physics of shock waves.

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Fidelity

Fidelity is the quality of faithfulness or loyalty.

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Form perception

Form perception is the recognition of visual elements of objects, specifically those to do with shapes, patterns and previously identified important characteristics. Gestalt psychology and Form perception are perception.

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Fritz Perls

Friedrich Salomon Perls (July 8, 1893 – March 14, 1970), better known as Fritz Perls, was a German-born psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and psychotherapist.

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Functional fixedness

Functional fixedness is a cognitive bias that limits a person to use an object only in the way it is traditionally used.

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Gabriele von Wartensleben

Gabriele von Wartensleben (April 24, 1870 – August 12, 1953) was a German psychologist who published the first academic statement on Gestalt theory.

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Geometry

Geometry is a branch of mathematics concerned with properties of space such as the distance, shape, size, and relative position of figures.

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Gestalt theoretical psychotherapy

Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy (GTP) is a method of psychotherapy based strictly on Gestalt psychology.

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Gestalt therapy

Gestalt therapy is a form of psychotherapy that emphasizes personal responsibility and focuses on the individual's experience in the present moment, the therapist–client relationship, the environmental and social contexts of a person's life, and the self-regulating adjustments people make as a result of their overall situation.

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Gestaltzerfall

Gestaltzerfall (German for "shape decomposition" or Gestalt decomposition) is a type of visual agnosia and is a psychological phenomenon where delays in recognition are observed when a complex shape is stared at for a while as the shape seems to decompose into its constituting parts.

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Graz School

The Graz School (Grazer Schule), also Meinong's School, of experimental psychology and object theory was headed by Alexius Meinong, who was professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Graz where he founded the Graz Psychological Institute (Grazer Psychologische Institut) in 1894. Gestalt psychology and Graz School are psychological schools.

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Halo effect

The halo effect (sometimes called the halo error) is the proclivity for positive impressions of a person, company, country, brand, or product in one area to positively influence one's opinion or feelings.

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Hans Wallach

Hans Wallach (November 28, 1904 – February 5, 1998) was a German-American experimental psychologist whose research focused on perception and learning.

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Hermann Friedmann

Adolph Hermann Friedmann (11 April 1873, in Białystok – 25 May 1957, in Heidelberg) was a German philosopher and jurist, Finnish citizen from 1906.

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Hermann von Helmholtz

Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (31 August 1821 – 8 September 1894) was a German physicist and physician who made significant contributions in several scientific fields, particularly hydrodynamic stability.

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Holism in science

Holism in science, holistic science, or methodological holism is an approach to research that emphasizes the study of complex systems. Gestalt psychology and holism in science are holism.

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Human

Humans (Homo sapiens, meaning "thinking man") or modern humans are the most common and widespread species of primate, and the last surviving species of the genus Homo.

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Human brain

The brain is the central organ of the human nervous system, and with the spinal cord makes up the central nervous system.

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Illusion

An illusion is a distortion of the senses, which can reveal how the mind normally organizes and interprets sensory stimulation. Gestalt psychology and illusion are perception.

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Illusory contours

Illusory contours or subjective contours are visual illusions that evoke the perception of an edge without a luminance or color change across that edge.

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Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant (born Emanuel Kant; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers.

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Impossible trident

An impossible trident, also known as an impossible fork, blivet, poiuyt, or devil's tuning fork,Brooks Masterton, John M. Kennedy,, Perception, 1975, vol.

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Isomorphism (Gestalt psychology)

The term isomorphism literally means sameness (iso) of form (morphism). Gestalt psychology and isomorphism (Gestalt psychology) are psychological schools.

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Ivan Pavlov

Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (Иван Петрович Павлов,; 27 February 1936) was a Russian and Soviet experimental neurologist and physiologist known for his discovery of classical conditioning through his experiments with dogs.

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James J. Gibson

James Jerome Gibson (January 27, 1904 – December 11, 1979) was an American psychologist and is considered to be one of the most important contributors to the field of visual perception.

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James Tenney

James Tenney (August 10, 1934 – August 24, 2006) was an American composer and music theorist.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath and writer, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language.

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Karl Duncker

Karl Duncker (2 February 1903, in Leipzig – 23 February 1940) was a German Gestalt psychologist.

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Kurt Goldstein

Kurt Goldstein (November 6, 1878 – September 19, 1965) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist who created a holistic theory of the organism.

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Kurt Koffka

Kurt Koffka (March 12, 1886 – November 22, 1941) was a German psychologist and professor.

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Laboratory

A laboratory (colloquially lab) is a facility that provides controlled conditions in which scientific or technological research, experiments, and measurement may be performed.

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Laura Perls

Laura Perls (née Lore Posner; 15 August 1905 – 13 July 1990) was a German-Jewish psychologist and psychotherapist.

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Law (principle)

A law is a universal principle that describes the fundamental nature of something, the universal properties and the relationships between things, or a description that purports to explain these principles and relationships.

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Laws of association

In psychology, the principal laws of association are contiguity, repetition, attention, pleasure-pain, and similarity.

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List of psychological schools

The psychological schools are the great classical theories of psychology. Gestalt psychology and List of psychological schools are psychological schools.

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M. C. Escher

Maurits Cornelis Escher (17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972) was a Dutch graphic artist who made woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints, many of which were inspired by mathematics.

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Mammal

A mammal is a vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia.

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Map symbol

A map symbol or cartographic symbol is a graphical device used to visually represent a real-world feature on a map, working in the same fashion as other forms of symbols.

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Marquee (structure)

A marquee is most commonly a structure placed over the entrance to a hotel, theatre, casino, train station, or similar building.

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Mary Henle

Mary Henle (July 14, 1913 in Cleveland, Ohio; † November 17, 2007 in Haverford, Pennsylvania) was an American psychologist who's known most notably for her contributions to Gestalt Psychology and for her involvement in the American Psychological Association.

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Max Planck

Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (23 April 1858 – 4 October 1947) was a German theoretical physicist whose discovery of energy quanta won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.

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Max Wertheimer

Max Wertheimer (April 15, 1880 – October 12, 1943) was a psychologist who was one of the three founders of Gestalt psychology, along with Kurt Koffka and Wolfgang Köhler.

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Mereology

Mereology ((root: μερε-, mere-, 'part') and the suffix -logy, 'study, discussion, science') is the philosophical study of part-whole relationships, also called parthood relationships.

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Motion perception

Motion perception is the process of inferring the speed and direction of elements in a scene based on visual, vestibular and proprioceptive inputs. Gestalt psychology and Motion perception are perception.

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Multistability

In a dynamical system, multistability is the property of having multiple stable equilibrium points in the vector space spanned by the states in the system.

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Multistable perception

Multistable perception (or bistable perception) is a perceptual phenomenon in which an observer experiences an unpredictable sequence of spontaneous subjective changes. Gestalt psychology and Multistable perception are perception.

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Necker cube

The Necker cube is an optical illusion that was first published as a rhomboid in 1832 by Swiss crystallographer Louis Albert Necker.

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Neurology

Neurology (from νεῦρον (neûron), "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the nervous system, which comprises the brain, the spinal cord and the peripheral nerves.

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Object detection

Object detection is a computer technology related to computer vision and image processing that deals with detecting instances of semantic objects of a certain class (such as humans, buildings, or cars) in digital images and videos.

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Optical illusion

In visual perception, an optical illusion (also called a visual illusion) is an illusion caused by the visual system and characterized by a visual percept that arguably appears to differ from reality.

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Pattern recognition

Pattern recognition is the task of assigning a class to an observation based on patterns extracted from data.

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Pattern recognition (psychology)

In psychology and cognitive neuroscience, pattern recognition describes a cognitive process that matches information from a stimulus with information retrieved from memory. Gestalt psychology and pattern recognition (psychology) are cognitive psychology and perception.

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Pál Harkai Schiller

Pál Harkai Schiller (4 November 1908 in Budapest – 1949 in United States), also known as Paul von Schiller, was a Hungarian philosopher and psychologist.

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Perception

Perception is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information or environment.

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Phenomenology (psychology)

Phenomenology or phenomenological psychology, a sub-discipline of psychology, is the scientific study of subjective experiences. Gestalt psychology and phenomenology (psychology) are psychological schools.

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Phi phenomenon

The term phi phenomenon is used in a narrow sense for an apparent motion that is observed if two nearby optical stimuli are presented in alternation with a relatively high frequency.

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Physiology

Physiology is the scientific study of functions and mechanisms in a living system.

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Principles of grouping

The principles of grouping (or Gestalt laws of grouping) are a set of principles in psychology, first proposed by Gestalt psychologists to account for the observation that humans naturally perceive objects as organized patterns and objects, a principle known as Prägnanz. Gestalt psychology and principles of grouping are perception.

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Prototype theory

Prototype theory is a theory of categorization in cognitive science, particularly in psychology and cognitive linguistics, in which there is a graded degree of belonging to a conceptual category, and some members are more central than others.

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Psychological Bulletin

The Psychological Bulletin is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes evaluative and integrative research reviews and interpretations of issues in psychology, including both qualitative (narrative) and/or quantitative (meta-analytic) aspects.

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Psychologist

A psychologist is a professional who practices psychology and studies mental states, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and social processes and behavior.

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Psychophysical parallelism

In the philosophy of mind, psychophysical parallelism (or simply parallelism) is the theory that mental and bodily events are perfectly coordinated, without any causal interaction between them.

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Radio button

A radio button or option button is a graphical control element that allows the user to choose only one of a predefined set of mutually exclusive options.

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Reification

Reification may refer to.

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Reification (fallacy)

Reification (also known as concretism, hypostatization, or the fallacy of misplaced concreteness) is a fallacy of ambiguity, when an abstraction (abstract belief or hypothetical construct) is treated as if it were a concrete real event or physical entity.

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Retina

The retina (or retinas) is the innermost, light-sensitive layer of tissue of the eye of most vertebrates and some molluscs.

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Robert Morris Ogden

Robert Morris Ogden (1877–1959) was an American psychologist and academic.

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Rubin vase

Rubin's vase (sometimes known as the Rubin face or the figure–ground vase) is a famous example of ambiguous or bi-stable (i.e., reversing) two-dimensional forms developed around 1915 by the Danish psychologist Edgar Rubin.

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Rudolf Arnheim

Rudolf Arnheim (July 15, 1904 – June 9, 2007) was a German-born writer, art and film theorist, and perceptual psychologist.

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Schema (psychology)

In psychology and cognitive science, a schema (schemata or schemas) describes a pattern of thought or behavior that organizes categories of information and the relationships among them. Gestalt psychology and schema (psychology) are cognitive psychology.

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Scholarpedia

Scholarpedia is an English-language wiki-based online encyclopedia with features commonly associated with open-access online academic journals, which aims to have quality content in science and medicine.

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School of Brentano

The School of Brentano was a group of philosophers and psychologists who studied with Franz Brentano and were essentially influenced by him.

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Self-fulfilling prophecy

A self-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that comes true at least in part as a result of a person's belief or expectation that the prediction would come true.

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Sense data

The theory of sense data is a view in the philosophy of perception, popularly held in the early 20th century by philosophers such as Bertrand Russell, C. D. Broad, H. H. Price, A. J. Ayer, and G. E. Moore.

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Smith College

Smith College is a private liberal arts women's college in Northampton, Massachusetts.

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Solomon Asch

Solomon Eliot Asch (September 14, 1907 – February 20, 1996) was a Polish-American Gestalt psychologist and pioneer in social psychology.

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Structural information theory

Structural information theory (SIT) is a theory about human perception and in particular about visual perceptual organization, which is a neuro-cognitive process. Gestalt psychology and Structural information theory are perception.

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Structuralism (psychology)

Structuralism in psychology (also structural psychology) is a theory of consciousness developed by Edward Bradford Titchener.

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Subjective constancy

Subjective constancy or perceptual constancy is the perception of an object or quality as constant even though our sensation of the object changes. Gestalt psychology and Subjective constancy are perception.

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System

A system is a group of interacting or interrelated elements that act according to a set of rules to form a unified whole.

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Topological data analysis

In applied mathematics, topological data analysis (TDA) is an approach to the analysis of datasets using techniques from topology.

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Tower of Hanoi

The Tower of Hanoi (also called The problem of Benares Temple or Tower of Brahma or Lucas' Tower and sometimes pluralized as Towers, or simply pyramid puzzle) is a mathematical game or puzzle consisting of three rods and a number of disks of various diameters, which can slide onto any rod.

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Trial and error

Trial and error is a fundamental method of problem-solving characterized by repeated, varied attempts which are continued until success, or until the practicer stops trying.

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User interface design

User interface (UI) design or user interface engineering is the design of user interfaces for machines and software, such as computers, home appliances, mobile devices, and other electronic devices, with the focus on maximizing usability and the user experience. Gestalt psychology and user interface design are graphic design.

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Vera Felicidade de Almeida Campos

Vera Felicidade de Almeida Campos (born August 18, 1942) is a Brazilian psychologist who founded Gestalt Psychotherapy, a psychotherapeutic theory based on Gestalt Psychology.

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Wilhelm Wundt

Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt (16 August 1832 – 31 August 1920) was a German physiologist, philosopher, and professor, one of the fathers of modern psychology.

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Wolfgang Köhler

Wolfgang Köhler (21 January 1887 – 11 June 1967) was a German psychologist and phenomenologist who, like Max Wertheimer and Kurt Koffka, contributed to the creation of Gestalt psychology.

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Wolfgang Metzger

Wolfgang Metzger (born 22 July 1899 in Heidelberg, Germany; died 20 December 1979 in Bebenhausen, Germany) is considered one of the main representatives of Gestalt psychology (Gestalt theory) in Germany.

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See also

Holism

Psychological schools

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt_psychology

Also known as Configurationism, Contour completion, Gestalt Theory, Gestalt completion, Gestalt effect, Gestalt perception, Gestalt phenomena, Gestalt principals, Gestalt principles, Gestalt psychologists, Gestaltism, Gestaltist, Gestaltpsychologie, Law of Closure, Law of Common Fate, Law of Proximity, Law of Similarity, Law of Symmetry, Law of pragnanz, Law of precision, Praegnanz, Prägnanz, Reification (Gestalt psychology), The law of Prägnanz.

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