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believed the brain contains electrochemical force fields.
Gestaltists
thought that memory, like other psychological phenomena, is governed by the law of Prägnanz. E
Gestaltists
He called the brain activity caused by a specific environmental event a memory process.
Koffka
assumed that each physical event we experience gives rise to specific activity in the brain.
Koffka
In life, we experience both biological needs and psychological needs (or quasi needs).
Kurt Lewin
reaching an understanding involves many aspects of learners, such as their emotions, attitudes, and perceptions, as well as their intellects.
Wertheimer
"The tests do not show what specific processes actually participate in the test achievements. The scores are mere numbers which allow of many different interpretations."
Wolfgang Kohler
The tendency to remember uncompleted tasks better than completed ones
Zeigarnik effect
lewin
believed that psychology should not categorize people into types or emphasize inner essences.
studied conflict and group dynamics.
kurt Lewin
Lewin's most important theoretical concept
life space
approach-approach conflict
occurs when a person is attracted to two goals at the same time, such as needing to choose from two movies you want to see at the same cinema or between two excellent graduate programs after being accepted by both
that only those facts that are currently present in the life space can influence a person's thinking and behavior.
principle of contemporaneity,
consist of an awareness of internal events (such as hunger, pain, and fatigue), external events (restaurants, restrooms, other people, stop signs, and angry dogs), and recollections of prior experiences (knowing that a particular person is pleasant or unpleasant, or knowing that one's mother tends to say yes to certain requests and no to others).
psychological facts
law of Prägnanz
states that psychological organization will always be as good as conditions allow under the prevailing cir- cumstances, just as with other physical force fields.
