Page(s) 17-18 What Do Psychologists Investigate? Which of the following would represent a Gestalt approach? Correct Answer(s) Drag appropriate answer(s) here describing a sound by identifying its pitch, tone, and clarity Press Space to open believing that two people can see one thing in different ways Press Space to open seeing pictures in cloud shapes Press Space to open describing a sketch of a cityscape as a series of lines and boxes Press Space to open explaining a friend’s fear of dogs as based solely on one bad experience

1. believing that two people can see one thing in different ways.

2. seeing pictures in cloud shapes.

Explanation:

Gestalt approach: In psychology, the term "gestalt approach" or "gestalt theory" signifies that the "whole is greater than its parts". In other words, the attributes of anything whole aren't deducible by analyzing its specific parts in isolation.

A famous Gestalt psychologist named Kurt Koffka explained that the human brain and eye distinctly perceives a particular shape as compared to the way they are being perceived by the single parts of those specified shapes.

There are five distinct principles involved in Gestalt theory:

1. Proximity.

2. Closure.

3. Continuity.

4. Connectedness.

5. Similarity.

the earth’s crust is broken into separate pieces called tectonic plates (fig. 7.14). recall that the crust is the solid, rocky, outer shell of the planet. it is composed of two distinctly different types of material: the less-dense continental crust and the more-dense oceanic crust. both types of crust rest atop solid, upper mantle material. the upper mantle, in turn, floats on a denser layer of lower mantle that is much like thick molten tar.

each tectonic plate is free-floating and can move independently. earthquakes and volcanoes are the direct result of the movement of tectonic plates at fault lines. the term fault is used to describe the boundary between tectonic plates. most of the earthquakes and volcanoes around the pacific ocean basin—a pattern known as the “ring of fire”—are due to the movement of tectonic plates in this region. other observable results of short-term plate movement include the gradual widening of the great rift lakes in eastern africa and the rising of the himalayan mountain range. the motion of plates can be described in four general patterns:

collision: when two continental plates are shoved together

subduction: when one plate plunges beneath another (fig. 7.15)

spreading: when two plates are pushed apart (fig. 7.15)

transform faulting: when two plates slide past each other (fig. 7.15)