Gestalt psychology

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Gestalt psychology (uncountable)

  1. (psychology) A school of psychology that emerged in the early twentieth century in Austria and Germany as a theory of perception, that was a rejection of basic principles of Wilhelm Wundt's and Edward Titchener's elementalist and structuralist psychology.

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