gestalt psychology definition sociology
Definition of GESTALT PSYCHOLOGY. : the study of perception and behavior from the standpoint of an individual's response to configurational wholes with stress on the uniformity of psychological and physiological events and rejection of analysis into discrete events of stimulus, percept, and response.ADVERTISEMENT. the study of perception and behavior from the standpoint of an individual's response to configurational wholes with stress on the uniformity of psychological and physiological events and rejection of analysis into discrete events of stimulus, percept, and response. ADVERTISEMENT.
Definition of 'gestalt'. gestalt. In psychology, a gestalt is something that has particular qualities when you consider it as a whole which are not obvious when you consider only the separate parts of it. [technical] ...the visual strength of the gestalt.