PSYCH 1XX3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Principles Of Grouping, Gestalt Psychology, Emergence
19 Apr 2020
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Movies are made from quickly flashing static pictures. If you take the black as background, you"ll see white arrows pointing up and down. If you take the white as background, you"ll see men running downstairs: elements close together in space tend to belong together, definition: tendency to group elements that are close together in space. (2) We automatically fill in the parts we can"t see to perceive a single object. (3) We don"t view the truck as 2 different objects we perceive it as one whole object. We perceive a rectangle, despite obvious gaps: ex. Your tendency to fill in the gaps may be so strong that you might even think you see a faint line across the gaps. (4) Similarit y: tendency to group together elements that are physically similar. We tend to see columns of the same elements as belonging together: you will see columns of all x"s or o"s but not grouping them together as xoxoxo (5)
