Which type of early psychologist believed that "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts?"

a) Gestaltist
b) behaviorist
c) structuralist
d) functionalist

ANS: A, The Gestaltists studied the perception of wholes.

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a. personality styles b. temperamental wellbeing c. physiological growth d. language and emotional communication

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Wundt's system dealt only with consciousness because ____.?

a. ?the unconscious has only one element (feelings) b. ?the unconscious cannot be reduced to basic elements c. ?the unconscious cannot be introspected d. ?the a priori knowledge of the unconscious cannot be distinguished from empirical knowledge e. ?he posited that the unconscious is a pseudo-problem

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