gestalt

noun
ge*stalt \ gə-ˈstält \ -ˈshtält \ -ˈstȯlt \ -ˈshtȯlt \
1922
  • something that is made of many parts and yet is somehow more than or different from the combination of its parts; broadly : the general quality or character of something

Gestalt psychology

noun
Gestalt psychology \
1924
  • 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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