Our brains tend to relate incoming sensations to others already in memory, based on some fundamental organizational principles. These principles derive from ________, a school of thought that maintains that people interpret meaning from the totality of a set of stimuli rather than from any individual stimulus.
A) Freudian psychology
B) Gestalt psychology
C) Simmons psychology
D) the Covey approach

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Gestalt psychology is the correct answer because it emphasizes understanding the whole experience rather than breaking it down into individual parts or stimuli. This school of thought argues that the mind integrates elements into wholes according to certain principles, such as similarity, proximity, continuity, and closure.

Our Brains Tend to Relate Incoming Sensations to Others Already