gestalt principles

Question 1

what are visual perception principles?

Answer 1

Visual perception principles are rules your brain follows to organise and interpret what you see. These help you make sense of complex images quickly.

Question 2

what is a gestalt principle?

Answer 2

a gestalt principle is a rule that explains how we naturally organise visual parts into whole shapes or patterns.

Question 3

what are psychological factors?

Answer 3

internal factors affecting to an individual’s mental processes, including their cognition, affect, thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes.

Question 4

what are the gestalt principles?

Answer 4

figure-ground, closure, similarity, proximity, pragnanz, continuity.

Question 5

what is figure-ground?

Answer 5

Our brains naturally decide what’s the “main thing” (the figure) and what’s just “everything else” (the background).
- organising visual info by separating the important aspects of the visual field into ‘figure’ and ‘ground’

Question 6

what is the contour/boundary in figure-ground?

Answer 6

The contour (boundary) always belongs to the figure, not the background. That’s how your brain decides what to focus on.

Question 7

what is closure?

Answer 7

the perceptual tendency to mentally ‘close up’, fill in, or ignore gaps in a visual image.
- to perceive incomplete objects as a whole.

Question 8

what is similarity?

Answer 8

items that are similar are grouped together by your brain
- similar size, shape, texture, colour
- tendency to perceive stimuli that have similar features as belonging together in a unit, group or ‘whole’

Question 9

give an example of figure-ground.

Answer 9

a stop sign
words = figure, red = background

Question 10

give an example of similarity.

Answer 10

uniforms/school students.

Question 11

what is proximity?

Answer 11

objects that are close to one-another are grouped together
the tendency to perceive parts of a visual image which are close-together as belonging together/being in a group.