gestalt principles Flashcards
what are visual perception principles?
Visual perception principles are rules your brain follows to organise and interpret what you see. These help you make sense of complex images quickly.
what is a gestalt principle?
A Gestalt principle is a rule your brain follows to group and organize visual information so you can make sense of what you see.
Gestalt principles explain how we naturally perceive patterns, objects, and scenes as organised wholes instead of just random parts.
what are psychological factors?
internal factors affecting to an individual’s mental processes, including their cognition, affect, thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes.
what are the gestalt principles?
figure-ground, closure, similarity, proximity, pragnanz, continuity.
what is figure-ground?
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’
what is the contour/boundary in figure-ground?
The contour (boundary) always belongs to the figure, not the background. That’s how your brain decides what to focus on.
what is closure?
the perceptual tendency to mentally ‘close up’, fill in, or ignore gaps in a visual image.
- to perceive incomplete objects as a whole.
what is similarity?
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’
give an example of figure-ground.
a stop sign
words = figure, red = background
give an example of similarity.
uniforms/school students.
what is proximity?
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.
