A quarter in your hand casts a different image on your retina than a quarter taped to the wall across the room, yet you know that the quarters have exactly the same dimensions. This phenomenon would be best explained by a
A) behaviorist.
B) Gestalt psychologist.
C) evolutionary psychologist.
D) structuralist.

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Gestalt psychologists believe in the importance of context and perception as a whole, rather than just individual elements. The difference in perception of the quarter in your hand versus on the wall can be explained by Gestalt principles such as figure-ground perception and the idea that the brain organizes sensory information into meaningful patterns.

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