When we see a painting by George Seurat, the famous French impressionist, we tend to experience it as a rendering of a lovely landscape rather than as the series of separate, differently colored dots of which the painting is actually composed.This phenomenon illustrates which school of thought in psychology?
A) structuralism
B) behaviorism
C) Gestalt psychology
D) psychodynamic psychology

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Gestalt psychology emphasizes that we experience an object or scene as a unified whole, rather than as a collection of separate parts. The example given in the question, of seeing a painting by Seurat as a landscape rather than a series of dots, is consistent with this idea.

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