PSYCH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Retina, Gestalt Psychology
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Gestalt principles of perceptual organization: the wholes we perceive are often more than and frequently different from the sum of their parts. Figure-ground relations: we tend to organize stimuli into a central or foreground figure and a background (in vision, the central figure is usually in front of or on top of what we perceive as background) When parts of a configuration are perceived as similar, they will be perceived as belonging together. Law of proximity: the elements that are near one another are likely to be perceived as part of the same configuration. People tend to close the open edges of a figure or fill in gaps in an incomplete figure, so that their identification of the form is more complete than what is actually there. People link individual elements together so that they form a continuous line or pattern that makes sense.
