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.
Gestalt psychology emphasizes that perception is not simply the sum of individual parts but rather that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. This approach focuses on how humans perceive patterns and relationships in the world around them, highlighting the importance of context and organization in shaping our understanding of the world.
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"
The gestalt psychology approach emphasizes looking at the whole rather than its individual parts. This approach focuses on how the mind perceives patterns and wholes in sensory information, rather than breaking it down into separate components.
Structuralism
Gestalt psychology emphasizes that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, focusing on how people perceive and experience patterns and wholes in the world around them rather than individual elements. It highlights the importance of studying phenomena as integrated wholes rather than breaking them down into smaller components.
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.
Gestalt psychology is a prominent approach that emphasizes how the mind perceives wholes or organized groups of information, rather than focusing on individual elements. Gestalt psychologists argue that the whole is different than the sum of its parts because our perception is influenced by how elements are organized or structured. This approach highlights how perception involves the brain's ability to create meaningful patterns from various elements.
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.
Close. "The whole is more than the sum of its parts."