The illusion that two stationary flashing lights are moving from one place to another

-Coined by Max Wertheimer

-Associated with Gestalt Psychology; Principles of Perception 

Immediate apprehension or cognition (alternative definition according to PP lecture: a sudden, intuitive perception of useful relations in a given situation.)

-Coined by Wolfgang Kohler
-Robert Yerkes found evidence in orangutans to support the concept of insight, which he called “ideational learning”
-Associated with Gestalt Psychology àGestalt Studies of Learning: Insight and the Mentality of Apes

Lewin’s system using the concept of fields of force to explain behavior in terms of one’s field of social influences. 

-Coined by Kurt Lewin

-Associated with Gestalt Psychologyàcounterpart to the concept of force fields in physics

1.Life Space

2.Field

3.Existence

4.Locomotion

5.Force

6.Valence

7.Goal

8.Conflict

9.Interdependence

          can remember unfinished tasks more than completed ones; tension in reaching the goal retains memory

-Coined by Kurt Lewin

-Associated with Gestalt Psychology

·         In her 20s, she experienced headaches, anxiety, poor vision, and loss of sensations—later experienced hallucinations, speech problems and distortions of self-awareness. Talking about it made the symptoms go away.

-Associated with Psychoanalysis

       real meaning hidden in the unconscious mind

-Theory formed by Freud

-Associated with Psychoanaylis

1. Supervised confession
2. Catharsis
3. Dream interpretation
4. Free association
5.  Transference

List Freud's Tactics (5)

        Adjusting behavior due to demands from the environment

-Associated with Metapsychology

       a wide range of physical or psychological difficulties that become impediments

-Coined by Alfred Adler

-Associated with Metapsychology

Transfer initial experience to other circumstances.

-Coined by Wolfgang Kohler

-New Learning

a set of psychological and psychotherapeutic theories and associated techniques

-Coined by Sigmund Freud

-Also stems from works of Josef Brever