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Gestalt psychology

 
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–noun
(sometimes lowercase) the theory or doctrine that physiological or psychological phenomena do not occur through the summation of individual elements, as reflexes or sensations, but through gestalts functioning separately or interrelatedly.
Also called configurationism.

Origin:
1920–25
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Gestalt psychology  
n.  The school or theory in psychology holding that psychological, physiological, and behavioral phenomena are irreducible experiential configurations not derivable from a simple summation of perceptual elements such as sensation and response.
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Main Entry: Gestalt psychology
Function: noun
: the study of perception and behavior from the standpoint of an individual's response to gestalten with stress on theuniformity of psychological and physiological events and rejection of analysis into discrete events of stimulus, percept, and response —Gestalt psychologist noun
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Gestalt psychology n.
See gestaltism.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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