GESTALT PSYCHOLOGY
Assalamualaikum to our lovely readers!!! Todays, I would like to share with you one of the theory in psychology which is Gestalt Theory. What is Gestalt Theory?
From my understanding Gestalt Theory is emphasized the importance of organizational process in perception, learning, and problem solving. It refers to theories of visual perception developed by German psychologists in the 1920s. These theories attempt to describe how people tend to organize visual elements into groups or unified wholes when certain principles are applied.
There are several basic ideas to emerge from Gestalt psychology which are:
Ø Perception is often different from reality
Ø The whole is more than the sum of its parts
Ø An organism structures and organizes experience
Ø An organism is predisposed to organize experience in certain ways
These principles are:
(1) Law of proximity
- People tend to perceive as a unit those things that are close together in space.
We see objects close to each other as forming a group.
(2) Law of similarity
- People tend to perceive as a unit those things that physically resemble one another
- We group elements if they are similar to each other.
(3) Law of closure
- People tend to fill in missing pieces to form a complete picture. For example, people tend to filled in missing segments of what appeared to be continuous lines to perceive a circle.
We perceptually complete objects that are incomplete
(4) Law of Pragnanz
- Learning that involves the formation of memory traces.
Something is always "the object", the rest is "background". This effect is often used in optical illusions like the well-known Rubin Vase above. Do you see the vase or the two faces?
Interesting right?? We hope this post can help you more understanding about Gestalt Theory.
Thanks you. Have a nice day. =)
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