Gestalt psychology, or gestaltism, is a philosophy from the Berlin School of Experimental Psychology. Gestalt 🏷️#psychology is an attempt to understand the laws behind the ability to acquire and maintain meaningful perceptions in an apparently chaotic world.
The central principle of Gestalt Psychology is that the mind forms a global whole with self-organizing tendencies. The assumed physiological mechanisms on which Gestalt theory rests are poorly defined and support for their existence is lacking. [1][2]
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- A History of Modern Psychology, Schultz, Duane
- Visual Perception: Physiology, Psychology, and Ecology, Bruce V. Green