structuralist.
Structuralism
Close. "The whole is more than the sum of its parts."
gestalt
Synergy, possibly.
I believe you are looking for a school of philosophy instead of psychology. That belief is called emergence and more specifically, the idea of the whole being larger than the sum of its parts is a characteristic of an idea called strong emergence.
a branch of psychology believing that "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts", studies perceptions and against dividing into discrete parts.
Gestalt psychology contributed the idea that the human mind perceives the whole rather than just the sum of its parts. This approach emphasized the importance of organizing sensory information into meaningful patterns and configurations. It also influenced fields such as cognitive psychology, emphasizing the study of perception, problem-solving, and learning.
That is part of a psychology knownas "gestalt psychology", first promoted around 1900 by Christian von Ehrenfels. Its premise is that "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts"
Structuralism
1.4 is greater because it has 1 whole and 4 parts of a whole number while 0.95 has no whole numers but 95 parts of a whole number.
Atomistic Approach meant an orientation towards parts of the texts and the whole as a sum of the parts; body interactions.
The Gestalt psychology school was the first to identify that visual perception occurs in terms of whole objects rather than individual component parts. They emphasized the importance of how elements are perceived as organized wholes, focusing on the principles of similarity, proximity, closure, and continuity.
It's from Gestalt psychology which is based on the premise that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. To my knowledge it comes from the new science of systems, General Systems Theory and infers that one cannot know the whole through the traditional science of reductionism, taking it apart, studying the parts and putting them back together again, thinking then you know the whole. The reason for this is one can only understand the parts in interaction, or as they term it dynamic interaction, for there seems always an emergent quality or qualities that arise from this dynamic interaction of the parts, which could never have been predicted by the study of the parts in isolation. Part to part, part to the whole and the whole to each of its parts. We might say we know the whole, when we know a working whole.
Deborah A. Thomas has written: 'Hard times' -- subject(s): Psychology, Whole and parts (Psychology), Psychology in literature, Knowledge
Gestalt psychology is the school of psychology that assumes that human activity cannot be broken down into separate units for analysis but must be evaluated as wholes. It emphasizes the importance of understanding the overall patterns and structures that form our experiences and behavior.
Close. "The whole is more than the sum of its parts."
synergy.