The Gestalt Principles of Perceptual Organization Flashcards
What is the Gestalt Principle of ‘Invariance’?
The human perceptual ability to perceive simple geometrical objects as constant regardless of their rotation/orientation, translation, scale/elastic deformations, lighting and variable in component features.
Figure/Ground organization is…?
a. ) Entirely dependent on a strong color distinction between the foreground and background.
b. ) Affected by attention
c. ) An uncommon quirk of human perception
b.) Affected by attention
Human perception is amazing because…?
A huge majoring of us share a common experience of the world.
What is the Gestalt Principle of ‘Emergence’?
Our minds ability to capture a scene/object without focusing on the individual parts of the object.
The perceptual experience of meaningful elements appearing instantly from a scene, without conscious identification of elements that comprise the whole object.
Reification is thought to arise from…?
Illusory contours
Please define the term “Reification” in terms of visual perception.
Reification in terms of visual perception is the human’s perceptual ability to form complete pictures from a limited amount of sensory information.
What is the Gestalt principle of Multi-stability?
Our ability to randomly shift our interpretation of something to a different thing and most of the time, without our control.
Items sharing superficial characteristics are automatically and unconsciously perceived as grouped is know as…
The Law of Similarity
Visual elements are likely to be grouped into a “whole” object, item or scene when…?
Elements collectively form a meaningful and/or familiar mental representation
The law of symmetry states…?
Visual elements are often perceptually grouped when they are in a symmetrical arrangement.
The law of continuity identifies the perceptual ability to…?
Perceive objects as constant and whole even when partially occluded by other visual elements
The law of closure states that…?
We have an innate tendency to fill in the blanks when objects, items and visual scenes are incomplete
The three Gestalt laws added by Stephen Palmer et al in the 1990s were…?
Included to describe previously unaccounted perceptual biases
The law of element connectedness observes the human tendency to group visual elements…?
When they are connected in some way and regardless of their proximity to one another
According to the law of common region, visual elements would be seen as grouped when…?
They share the same clearly distinguished region of space
The law of synchrony shares much with the law of
common fate
The law of synchrony allows us to instantly identify which
visual elements belong to one group and distinguish them from all other unrelated elements.
The law of synchrony states that…?
When several events occur simultaneously, we tend to see them as grouped or similar in meaning.
What is true about the law of synchrony in design?
You can use it to draw users’ attention to animated and static images.
