Perception

Which Gestalt Principle?

• Figure Ground Perception

• Similarity

• Closure

• Proximity

Which Gestalt Principle?

• Figure Ground Perception

• Closure

• Similarity

• Proximity

Which Gestalt Principle?

• Figure Ground Perception

• Closure

• Proximity

• Continuity

Which of the following pertains to proximity?

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Your tendency to mentally fill in the gaps best reflects which of the following Gestalt principles of organization?

• continuity
•  proximity
• closure
• connectedness

The perceptual tendency to group together stimuli that are near each other is called

• interposition.
•  perceptual set.
• proximity. 
• closure.

Who emphasized that the whole may exceed the sum of its parts and that our brains organize sensation so we can make sense of it?

• evolutionary psychologists

• behaviorists

• Gestalt psychologists

• psychoanalysts

The convergence of parallel lines provides the distance cue known as

•  interposition.
• closure.
• relative height.
• linear perspective.

You are most likely to observe the phi phenomenon while:

•  looking at a string of Christmas tree lights that blink quickly in succession.
•  staring at a Necker cube.
•  comparing the size of the moon while it is in the sky, to its size near the horizon.
• attempting to catch a fly ball that is quickly coming toward you

The door is a rectangle, no matter what angle it is opened. This is an example of:

• Perceptual adaptation

• shape constancy

• Relative size

• Extrasensory Perception