the theory of Kohler and others that reactions are not to separate stimuli, but to situations perceived as wholes.
a school of psychology stressing the importance of studying the subjective way in which an object appears in people's minds, rather than the objective, physical attributes of the object
(psychology) a theory of psychology that emphasizes the importance of configurational properties
A school in psychology that emphasizes the organized character of human experience and behaviour. Gestalt is a German word that means form, pattern, or configuration. Gestalt psychology thus emphasizes the study of wholes or whole patterns. Gestalt Therapy - An experiential therapy stressing awareness and integration, it grew as a reaction against analytic therapy. It integrates the functioning of body and mind. The basic assumption is that individuals are responsible for their own behaviour and experiencing. The approach is designed to help people experience the present moment more fully and gain awareness of what they are doing.
A school of psychology founded in Germany in the 1910s.
A system of psychological theory concerned primarily with perception that emphasizes pattern, organization, wholes, and field properties.
Gestalt psychology (also Gestalt theory of the Berlin School) is a theory of mind and brain that proposes that the operational principle of the brain is holistic, parallel, and analog, with self-organizing tendencies. The classic Gestalt example is a soap bubble, whose spherical shape (its Gestalt) is not defined by a rigid template, or a mathematical formula, but rather it emerges spontaneously by the parallel action of surface tension acting at all points in the surface simultaneously. This is in contrast to the "atomistic" principle of operation of the digital computer, where every computation is broken down into a sequence of simple steps, each of which is computed independently of the problem as a whole.