Fritz Perls linked his conceptualization of the term organismic self-regulation to the Gestalt psychology principle of _____________________.
a. self-regulation
b. ambiguous figure/ground.
c. proximity
d. closure
e. natural order
Q. 2Which of the following adequately captures how our environment affects the figure/ground premise?
a. Environment has no effect upon this concept.
b. The figure emerges based on need or habit and the ground recedes, but when the need is met or attention shifts, the ground becomes a new figure.
c. Because of natural order, the figure and ground appear simultaneously and compete for psychological prominence.
d. One can change the figure through environmental manipulation, but not the ground.
e. Once can change the ground through environmental manipulation, but not the figure.
Q. 3What Gestalt psychology concept says that we organize what we see into a shape in the foreground and a rather formless background?
a. proximity
b. closure
c. figure/ground relations
d. polarities
e. homeostasis
Q. 4What Gestalt psychology concept says that when incomplete figures are perceived, the mind usually completes the figure?
a. proximity
b. closure
c. figure/ground relations
d. polarities
e. homeostasis
Q. 5What Gestalt psychology concept says that when stimuli are close together, they tend to form one perceptual unit?
a. proximity
b. closure
c. figure/ground relations
d. polarities
e. homeostasis
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