Test Yourself
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1. Interpreting and organizing the information we receive from our senses is called:
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perception
sensation
2. The fact that we organize our perceptions was first studied by
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Gestalt psychologists like Wertheimer
Structuralists, like Wundt
3. Dividing the world into two parts is called:
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closure
figure-ground
4. If, at a party, you group the people who are dressed casually together and the people who are dressed in fancy clothes together, you are
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using the law of closure
using the law of similarity
5. If you group together people who sit next to each other in class, you are using
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the law of familiarity
the law of proximity
6. The motto of the Gestalt school could be: The whole is different from the sum of its parts.
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True
False
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