Chapter 2 – Perception, Written Response pertaining to The Gestalt Principles of Perception

Gestalt Psychology was a strong force in Psychology, especially in Europe.

However, it was less of a force in the U.S., and as textbooks can often be ethnocentric, our textbook does not go into enough detail regarding the Gestalt Psychology and their contributions to the field to Cognition, specifically in regard to Perception.

Simply put, Gestalt Psychology proposed that the “whole is different than the sum of its parts” (Anderson, 2020).