PSYCH 1XX3 Lecture Notes - Gestalt Psychology, Outline Of Object Recognition, Flashcard
17 Mar 2014
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Gestalt principles: laws that describe how we organize visual input. Six gestalt principles: figure-ground most fundamental principle for form perception, ability to determine what aspect of a visual scene is part of the object itself and what is part of the background. Example: viewing a vase of flowers against flowery wallpaper. Example: small region is completely surrounded by a larger region. Example: grouping vegetables of same type together in a field. You group together the columns of os and column of xs rather than rows of xos: continuity lets us perceive a simple, continuous form rather than a combination of awkward forms. Example: letter x is seen as 2 continuous lines that cross in the middle rather than 2 vs: common fate the idea that things that change in the same way should be grouped together. Example: group of fish that are moving together in the same direction are grouped together.
