Gestalt Psychology, Cognitive Psych

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Gestalt Psychology

The theory regarding how people perceive patterns and whole figures, rather than just individual parts

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Gestalt Laws: Law of Proximity

Elements close to one another tend to be grouped together or perceived as a unit

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Gestalt Laws: The Law of Similarity

Similar objects tend to be grouped together

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Gestalt Laws: The law of continuation 

Elements that appear to follow in the same direction tend to be grouped together 

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Gestalt Laws: The Law of Pragnanz

Essentially the law that when presented with a complex array of objects, your brain will make them appear as simple as possible

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Gestalt Laws: The law of Closure

We perceive elements as belonging to the same group if they complete some entity/shape/form

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Top down Processing (Conceptually Driven)

Knowledge of objects play a critical role in object recognition

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Bottom down processing (Stimulus Driven)

Feature analysis plays a critical role in object recognition