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Which type of early psychologist believed that the whole is more than the sum of its parts?.

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the gestalt psychologists

Instead of breaking down thoughts and behavior to their smallest elements, the gestalt psychologists believed that you must look at the whole of experience. According to the Gestalt thinkers, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

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