The Importance of Perceptual Constancies in the Wundt Versus Gestalt

question 57

Multiple Choice

The importance of perceptual constancies in the Wundt versus Gestalt debate was that the experience supported ____.​

• A)​Wundt's findings that replication of experimental introspection methods provided the same or similar data
• B)Wundt's position that forms can always be reduced to constant elements (sensations and feelings)
• C)​Wundt's findings that analysis of an experience does not distort it
• D)the Gestalt position that "completeness" of an experience is not altered when the actual sensory components of the experience are altered
• E)the Gestalt finding that unless the animal changes an element of the problem,it cannot "see" (perceive)the solution

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