PSYC 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Phi Phenomenon, Problem Solving, Behaviorism
1 Nov 2017
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Maintained that when sensory elements are combined, the elements form a new pattern. Results in gestalt psychologts" revolutionary ways of viewing perception. His goal was to observe how the animal solves problems. He put the apes in cages, gave them implements that they could use to obtain food placed in plain view, and sat back to watch what they did. The apes used the tools to get the food. Gestalt psychologists accepted the value of consciousness while criticizing the attempt to reduce it to atoms/elements. Kant perceived mental states, that appear to be composed of bits, actively form a coherent experience. Mach believed our perception of an object does not change, even if we change our orientation to the object. Phrenomenology = a doctrine based on an unbiased description of immediate experience just as it occurs. Fields of force = regions traversed by lines of force (i. e. magnetic/electric current) Wertheimer conducted experiment about seeing motion when no action motion exists.
