PSYCH 1XX3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Principles Of Grouping, Emergence, Proposed Los Angeles Nfl Stadiums
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Study how people perceive the world around them. Firmly believed that, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts . Believed that people tended to perceive the whole stimulus rather than just putting together a collection of the stimulus discrete parts. Gestalt movement was in part a reaction to the structuralist approach in vogue at the time which suggested that everything could be reduced to basic elements. Watching a movie there isn"t continuous movement in or across any of these frames, but we perceive continuous movement as we watch the rapid sequence of still pictures. Motion is an emergent property of the sequence of pictures. The perception of the movie in its entirety including all of the complex movement is something more than the collection of thousand of still photographs. You could analyze every picture but it won"t provide the same rich experience that you would get from watching the movie itself.
