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gestalt psychology School of psychology characterized by the expression ‘the whole (gestalt) is greater than the sum of its parts’. It opposed the dominant theories of behaviourism. It was founded (c.1912) in Germany by Max Wertheimer, Wilhelm Wundt, Wolfgang Köhler, and Kurt Koffka.

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