Dr. spires talks with some students before psychology class begins. spires says, "i believe that mental experience is best understood as a whole, rather than in terms of its parts." her students recognize that spires describes which school of thought?

The answer is Gestalt.

Gestalt psychology was a school of psychology founded in the 20th century that provided the foundation for the modern study of perception. Gestalt theory emphasizes that the whole of anything is greater than its parts. The word Gestalt is used in modern German to mean the way a thing has been “placed,” or “put together.” There is no exact equivalent in English, in psychology the word is often interpreted as “pattern” or “configuration.”

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