The Gestalt Principles of Perception

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

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

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