PSYCH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Extrasensory Perception, Subjective Constancy, Gestalt Psychology
21 Sep 2016
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The distal stimulus is the stimulus that lies in the distance, or in the world outside the body. The proximal stimulus is the stimulus energies that impinge directly on the sensory receptors. The perceptual hypothesis is an inference of which distal stimulus could be responsible for the proximal stimulus that is sensed or experienced. Gestalt psychology is a school of thought arising in germany that was founded on the premise that given a cluster of sensations, people tend to organize them perceptually. It appears the whole is greater than the sum of its parts . The principle of figure and ground states that individuals focus on some objects in the perceptual field to the exclusion of others. Our focus becomes the figure , everything else faces to the ground . The principle of proximity states that the closer objects are to one another, the more likely they are to be perceived as a unit.
