Practice question · True or false
The Gestalt claim is precisely that a perceived whole can be a genuinely new experience, different from - not merely a larger pile of - its parts.
Hints
- Recall the exact wording: 'different from', not 'greater than'.
- Apparent motion is a new experience, not just more of the static flashes.
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True
Why
True. The whole is DIFFERENT from the sum of its parts: apparent motion is a genuinely new experience, not a bigger collection of the same static elements. This precise wording is what the lesson stresses over the looser 'greater than'.
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