Gestalt psychology
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Gestalt psychology is a school of thought in psychology that emphasizes understanding mental processes and perception as organized, structured wholes rather than as the sum of their parts.
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
psychological theory
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school of psychology → |
| associatedWithExperiment |
phi phenomenon
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| claims |
mental processes cannot be fully understood by analyzing parts in isolation
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perception is organized according to innate laws → |
| contrastsWith |
behaviorism
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elementarism → structuralism → |
| declinedIn |
mid 20th century
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| developedInPeriod |
early 20th century
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| emphasizes |
holistic processing
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organized wholes → pattern recognition → |
| field |
psychology
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| focusesOn |
learning
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perception → problem solving → thinking → |
| foundedBy |
Kurt Koffka
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Max Wertheimer → Wolfgang Köhler → |
| hasConcept |
closure principle
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common fate → figure–ground organization → good continuation → insight learning → isomorphism → proximity principle → prägnanz → similarity principle → |
| historicalCenter |
Frankfurt am Main
NERFINISHED
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University of Berlin NERFINISHED → |
| influenced |
Gestalt therapy
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cognitive psychology → design principles → perception research → social psychology → user interface design → visual arts theory → |
| keyFigure |
Fritz Perls
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Kurt Koffka NERFINISHED → Kurt Lewin → Max Wertheimer → Wolfgang Köhler NERFINISHED → |
| legacy |
modern cognitive science
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| methodology |
phenomenological analysis
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| originatedIn |
Germany
NERFINISHED
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| rejects |
reductionism in psychology
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| slogan |
the whole is greater than the sum of its parts
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| studies |
apparent motion
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Referenced by (9)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
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Abraham Maslow
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Kurt Goldstein → Maurice Merleau-Ponty → Michael Polanyi → Toward a Psychology of Being → humanistic psychology → |
influencedBy |
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Karl Bühler
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Kurt Lewin → |
movement |
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Karl Bühler
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fieldOfWork |