Which psychologists were first to focus on principles of perceptual organization?
A) behaviorists
B) psychoanalysts
C) Gestalt psychologists
D) evolutionary psychologists

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Gestalt psychologists, such as Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Kohler, and Kurt Koffka were the first to focus on principles of perceptual organization. They believed that perception is not just the sum of individual sensory experiences but rather organized as a whole, and identified principles such as proximity, similarity, closure, and continuity to explain how our brains organize visual information.

Which Psychologists Were First to Focus on Principles of Perceptual