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Gestalt psychology
noun
Definition of GESTALT PSYCHOLOGY
: the study of perception and behavior from the standpoint of an individual's response to configurational wholes with stress on the uniformity of psychological and physiological events and rejection of analysis into discrete events of stimulus, percept, and response
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First Known Use of GESTALT PSYCHOLOGY
1924
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Gestalt psychology
noun
Medical Definition of GESTALT PSYCHOLOGY
: 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 noun
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