PSYC 2120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Critical Role, Somatic Marker Hypothesis, Confirmation Bias
23 Jan 2018
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In the mid-20th century, psychologists in the gestalt school, such as kurt koffka and max. The mind actively selects which pieces of information it takes in and organizes those pieces. The fact that the same physical stimulus can be viewed in more than one way shows that the. Wertheimer, proposed that people construct an understanding of reality. into a network of knowledge. perceiver has an active role in what is perceived. The whole is more than the sum of its parts. Behind thinking are made without our conscious awareness. Our everyday thinking about the social world is largely a matter of choices, many of which. A major challenge that we all face in making sense of the social world is the sheer quantity of. There is always more information that we could consider, but eventually we have to reach a.
