Gestalt psychology
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gestalt-psychology-171-13060704
title:
Gestalt psychology
text:
Gestalt psychology, gestaltism, or configurationism is a school of psychology and a theory of perception that emphasises the processing of entire patterns and configurations, and not merely individual components. It emerged in the early twentieth century in Austria and Germany as a rejection of basic principles of Wilhelm Wundt's and Edward Titchener's elementalist and structuralist psychology. Gestalt psychology is often associated with the adage, "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts
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wiki
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Theory of perception
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt_psychology
date created:
2002-02-18T13:27:05Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T12:53:14Z
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