The 'Gestalt' in Fritz Perls's Humanistic Approach Refers to ________

question 278

Multiple Choice

The 'gestalt' in Fritz Perls's humanistic approach refers to ________.

• A)social learning principles that describe how people can learn from modelling and behavioural observation to form "whole" personalities
• B)perceptual principles through which people actively organize stimulus elements into meaningful "whole" patterns
• C)classical conditioning principles that describe how associations between stimuli are learned
• D)operant conditioning principles that describe how associations between behaviours and consequences are learned

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Definitions:

Good-Natured Joking

The act of engaging in humor or jesting that is friendly, positive, and not intended to cause harm or discomfort.

Realistic Accuracy Model

A framework in social psychology that explains accuracy in personality judgment as arising from a sequence of processes: relevance, availability, detection, and utilization of behavioral information.

Manipulation

The action of controlling or influencing a person or situation cleverly, unfairly, or unscrupulously.

Detection

The process of discovering or identifying the presence of a particular entity or condition, often through observation or the use of specific tests.