Gestalt psychology

The humanistic-existential model dates back to the 1940s. Carl Rogers is often credited as being the founder of the humanistic perspective (Comer, 2014). Theories using the humanist perspective have an optimistic view of human beings while those using the existential perspective believe that human beings are not naturally driven to live positive lives, but must make and chose to create meaning in one’s life (Comer, 2014). This theory emphasizes that people are able to attain goals beyond…

Perception Imagine driving down the road and what seems to be coming towards you is a giant black puddle. The puddle keeps transforming in to different shapes as the sun reflects different levels of brightness on the road. You look around and see that it is not raining and you wonder why you would be seeing a puddle. As your car gets even nearer to the puddle suddenly the puddle disappears and all you see is the hot black pavement. This is when you realize that you were not seeing a puddle at…

light is an automatic human reaction as this situation has already been experienced, interpreted and verified by our brain. In top down process, our brain sends down instruction for the action required based on past experience. There are four major Gestalt principles of perceptual organisation which are similarity, proximity, good continuation and pragnanz. Cognitive assessment methods for perception include the Muller – Lyer illusion where the perception level of an individual is tested based…

Developed by psychologists Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers, humanistic psychology emphasizes human potential and takes a more positive view of the human nature. During the mid-1900s, an individual with an anger disorder would attend therapy sessions with a psychoanalyst. Instead of asking questions about the patient’s past…

some had ideas that are still accepted today, some were ridiculed at the time of release, but grew to be acknowledged, and others that were so preposterous that people still not sure what to think of them. A massive contribution to the study of psychology was done by Carl Gustav Jung. The early career of Carl Jung as a psychologist was quite productive…

There is a well known dichotomy in science between the mind and the brain. It is a dualism of psychology and biology, where the fascinating components of life come together, to create a consciousness. Comparable to the symbiosis of a plant and its fungi, the mind and brain are integral parts of each other. Finding answers to the mysterious of the human brain is a captivating thought. It is this desire that drives my goal to understand the medical science behind the human brain, and treat its…

Even though Poe’s death remains a mystery today it is fact that “The Fall of the House of Usher” has been, throughout time, a reader’s favorite story, both casual and school forced. I personally think it has been such a famous and favorite book of readers because the short story is very dark, cruel, creepy and mysterious. Since it is so dark and mysterious it constantly keeps the attention of the readers such as college students like myself. If the story doesn’t keep my attention then I really…

Nicholas Cusanus and His Beliefs on the Relationship Between God and Humans Nicholas Cusanus was an important German philosopher of the fifteenth century. His thoughts gave an explanation of the relationship between God and people together. Cusanus argues that God exceeds not only our mind and ability to be intellectual, but also our language. He challenges that God is the absolute maximum, and that the universe is created in the image of God. He also proposes how people are able to…

Throughout my life, I have never really had a strong connection with theater. I didn’t find interest into theater until this summer semester. Based on the readings I have read and also the performances I have seen this summer, there are many different types of theater. When discussing the content of the theater, I like seeing themes that explore overcoming some type of struggle or just wanting to be loved. The characters I like to see is people who actually show deep emotion in who they are…

August 21, 1959 E.F. Lindquist created the first college admissions test based on information taught in school, thus forever changing the world of college preparations and admission (ACT History, 2014). Since the creation of the ACT in 1959 it has grown and became one of the most important tests students college bound will ever take. The ACT is composed of four sections; English, math, reading, and science. The scores from each section are then averaged to create a composite score. Each…