Introduction to Psychology 10th Edition by Rod Plotnik,Haig Kouyoumdjian

Exercise 25

The (a) _____ psychologists stated that the formation of perceptions cannot be understood by simply breaking perceptions down into individual components and then studying how we reassemble them. They argued that "the whole is more than the sum of its parts," by which they meant that perceptions are more than a combination of individual elements. The Gestalt psychologists believed that the brain has rules for assembling perceptions, which they called principles of (b) _____.