Licensure Exam for Teachers (LET)· Professional Regulation Commission (PRC)
Gestalt psychology emphasises that:
Choices
- AThe whole is different from (and greater than) the sum of its partsCorrect
- BLearning is purely a stimulus-response chain
- CBehaviour can be measured only by reflexes
- DCognition is a series of isolated facts
Answer
The whole is different from (and greater than) the sum of its parts
Gestalt psychology (Wertheimer, Köhler, Koffka) emphasises that perception and learning involve organising elements into meaningful wholes - "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts."
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