A school of thought that maintains people derive meaning from a totality of a set of stimuli, rather from any individual stimulus, is:
A) the holistic processing principle.
B) peripheral persuasion.
C) gestalt psychology.
D) stimulus integration theory.

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Gestalt psychology is the school of thought that emphasizes that people perceive objects not by means of some automatic registering device but by active, usually unconscious interpretation of what the object represents as a whole. It suggests that we derive meaning from the totality of a set of stimuli, rather than from any individual stimulus.

A School of Thought That Maintains People Derive Meaning from a Totality