The suggestion that people acquire meaning from the totality of a group of proximate stimuli rather than from any one individual stimulus is __________.
A) The Gestalt principle
B) Principles of context
C) Principles of form
D) Principles of grouping
E) Similarity principles

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The Gestalt principle is based on the idea that people perceive the whole of something as more than the sum of its parts, suggesting that meaning is derived from the totality of a group of proximate stimuli rather than from individual elements.

The Suggestion That People Acquire Meaning from the Totality of a Group