PSYCH 1XX3 Chapter Notes - Chapter Form Perception: Gestalt Psychology, Principles Of Grouping, Emergence
13 Apr 2018
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Distinguishing figure from background : a complex visual function, ex: looking at a vase with flowers that has a floral wallpaper behind it. How are we able to perceive form so quickly and effortlessly: problem of form perception. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts** Believed that people perceive the whole stimulus rather than each individual part a reaction to structuralist approach: which said everything can be reduced to basic elements. Proposed laws that describe how we organize visual input: laws of organization. Believed we are either born with these laws (grouping tendencies) or we acquire them quickly the six gestalt principles: figure ground the ability to distinguish an object from its background in a visual scene. We are more likely to group objects that are closer together than far apart: closure the tendency to fill in gaps in a contour to perceive a whole object.
