Gestalt Principles
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Vocabulary flashcards covering the main Gestalt principles: figure-ground, closure, proximity, and similarity.
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Figure-ground
Brain's tendency to separate the visual field into a figure (with shape, contour, and meaning) and a background (which has no shape or contour and appears behind the figure).
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Closure
Brain's tendency to mentally join, fill in, or ignore gaps in incomplete stimuli to perceive a whole form.
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Proximity
Brain's tendency to group parts of visual stimuli that are close to each other as belonging together.
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Similarity
Brain's tendency to group objects with similar features (such as size, shape, or color) as belonging together.
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