Gestalt psychology

Gestalt psychology
Gestalt psychology n the study of perception and behavior from the standpoint of an individual's response to gestalten with stress on the uniformity of psychological and physiological events and rejection of analysis into discrete events of stimulus, percept, and response
Gestalt psychologist n

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see gestaltism.

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