The first psychologists to emphasize the organizing processes underlying perception were the

A) opponent-process psychologists.
B) trichromatic theorists.
C) Gestalt psychologists.
D) signal detection theorists.

Gestalt psychologists were the first to emphasize the organizing processes underlying perception, focusing on how we perceive whole objects or figures rather than just a collection of individual parts or sensations. They introduced principles like figure-ground relationships, proximity, similarity, and closure to explain how we organize sensory information into meaningful patterns and shapes.