gestaltist
gestaltist noun: a practitioner of Gestalt therapy.
Noun (1)
gestaltist (plural gestaltists)
- A practitioner of Gestalt therapy.
Noun (2) capitalized: Gestaltist
Gestaltist (plural Gestaltists)
- Alternative form of gestaltist.
- The Gestaltists did not say that patterns of electrochemical brain activity are the same as patterns of perceptual activity. Rather, they said that perceptual fields are always caused by underlying patterns of brain activity.2004, B. Hergenhahn, An Introduction to the History of Psychology, page 426
- For the Gestaltist, thinking was not a reproductive recombination of learned associations but the meaningful effort to understand the fundamental nature and affordances of the given problem situation and the desired goal as a whole.2010, Britt Glatzeder, Vinod Goel, Albrecht Müller, Towards a Theory of Thinking, page 4
Forms of gestaltist
| plural | gestaltists |
|---|---|
| alternative form | Gestaltist |
| plural | Gestaltists |
Origin of gestaltist
From gestalt + -ist.
Questions about gestaltist
- What does gestaltist mean?
- Gestaltist means a practitioner of Gestalt therapy.
- What part of speech is gestaltist?
- Gestaltist is a noun.
- What is the plural of gestaltist?
- The plural of gestaltist is gestaltists.
Words near gestaltist in the dictionary
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