Gestalt is an English word with synonyms like form or shape. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Gestalt in a sentence
Gestalt meaning
A collection of physical, biological, psychological or symbolic elements that creates a whole, unified concept or pattern which is other than the sum of its parts due to the relationships between the parts (of a character, personality, entity, or being).
Using Gestalt
- The main meaning on this page is: A collection of physical, biological, psychological or symbolic elements that creates a whole, unified concept or pattern which is other than the sum of its parts due to the relationships between the parts (of a character, personality, entity, or being).
- Useful related words include: form, shape, pattern.
- In the example corpus, gestalt often appears in combinations such as: gestalt psychology, the gestalt, gestalt psychologists.
Context around Gestalt
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 12 start, 4 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Gestalt
- In this selection, "gestalt" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, word, simply, multigenerational, psychology, psychologists and diagnostics stand out and add context to how "gestalt" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include asch a gestalt psychologist and and binational multigenerational gestalt at the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "gestalt" sits close to words such as abbe, abdollahian and abergavenny, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with gestalt
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The word ‘gestalt’ is German for ‘shape’ or ‘form’, and it also means ‘creativity’. (14 words)
Felder Rushing is a Mississippi author, columnist, and host of the “Gestalt Gardener” on MPB Think Radio. (17 words)
Gestalt theorists believe that in order for learning to occur prior knowledge must exist on the topic. (17 words)
But no other Mexican musical act touches the binational, multigenerational gestalt at the heart of the Mexican American experience, according to Adrian Félix, an ethnic studies professor at UC Riverside who writes about transnational migration. (35 words)
An important feature of the book (although it was already present in the thesis) is that it shows a two-way flow between Gestalt and Salesian education: both can be enriched by the other. (34 words)
Beginning in 1951, Solomon Asch, a Gestalt psychologist and pioneer in social psychology, devised a series of experiments to examine the extent to which pressure from other people could affect a person’s judgment. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
An important feature of the book (although it was already present in the thesis) is that it shows a two-way flow between Gestalt and Salesian education: both can be enriched by the other.
Gestalt Diagnostics transforms pathology through an intelligent, configurable, vendor-neutral, and AI-driven digital workflow that provides true interoperability enabling pathologists to diagnose* diseases faster and more efficiently.
Gestalt is a holistic approach to psychology, and Hammond uses horses to help her read what someone is experiencing physically.
And great things like calculus and sonar get invented multiple times by multiple people because there’s a gestalt and a dialogue.
Beginning in 1951, Solomon Asch, a Gestalt psychologist and pioneer in social psychology, devised a series of experiments to examine the extent to which pressure from other people could affect a person’s judgment.
The word ‘gestalt’ is German for ‘shape’ or ‘form’, and it also means ‘creativity’.
To put it simply, Gestalt psychology attempts to explore and unpack; think of how your mind automatically perceives the face of a person you know well.
But no other Mexican musical act touches the binational, multigenerational gestalt at the heart of the Mexican American experience, according to Adrian Félix, an ethnic studies professor at UC Riverside who writes about transnational migration.
Felder Rushing is a Mississippi author, columnist, and host of the “Gestalt Gardener” on MPB Think Radio.
A point at which the violence may well escalate, but beyond which the terrorist has become symptomatic of the media gestalt itself.
Attorneys can influence a hostile witness' responses by using Gestalt psychology to influence the way the witness perceives the situation, and utility theory to understand their likely responses.
Beside the work of Freud, also Wolfgang Köhler 's study of the mentality of apes and Kurt Koffka 's ideas of Gestalt Psychology had Parsons attention.
Educational psychology has been built upon theories of Operant conditioning, functionalism, structuralism, constructivism, humanistic psychology, Gestalt psychology, and information processing.
Gestalt psychologists argued that these principles exist because the mind has an innate disposition to perceive patterns in the stimulus based on certain rules.
Gestalt psychologists believe one way this is done is by perceiving individual sensory stimuli as a meaningful whole.
Gestalt psychology was developed in Germany in the early 1900s by Wolfgang Kohler citation and was brought to America in the 1920s.
Gestalt theorists believe that in order for learning to occur prior knowledge must exist on the topic.
Gestalt therapists extended the subjective approach, claiming that even the inanimate objects in a dream can represent aspects of the dreamer.
Gestalt therapy usually takes place in groups, and in concentrated "workshops" rather than being spread out over a long period of time; it has been extended into new forms of communal living.
In addition to the Gestalt principles of perception, water-color illusions contribute to the formation of optical illusions.
Common combinations with gestalt
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- gestalt psychology 6×
- the gestalt 4×
- gestalt psychologists 3×
- gestalt and 2×
- gestalt is 2×
- gestalt therapy 2×
- in gestalt 2×
- gestalt of 2×