The Theories Of Gestalt Psychology

The Gestalt psychologist maintained that when people perceive sensory elements their tendency is to see things in terms of the entire form of pattern rather than as individual parts. According to certain patterns, Gestalt Psychology is defined to be things that are interested in how people naturally organize perception. “Whole is different from the sum of its parts!” Gestalt psychology has four parts; figure-ground, similarity, proximity and closure. To start us off, lets talk about figure ground.The figure and ground are perceived as 2 different things. A perfect example would be the letter “A” with a Christmas tree hidden inside. To some people the letter A stands out more than it were to others, and to others the tree might stand out more. Secondly, similarity would be an example of the letter “T” with black and white lines/strips going vertically.
Other example of similarity would be a row of yellow and then a row of red colored circles going across.
It means when humans view something their mind will think that things with the same shape or same color belong together. Next, proximity refers to how we comprehend the object that is closed together. An example would be two rows of red circle gong vertically with space in the middle after every two rows horizontally. Last but not the least, closure, which refers to the object that appears with gap, but is closed together in a figurative shape. An ideal example would be the letter “G” with a gap going through, in other words, connect the dots. In the nutshell, people perceive sensory elements their tendency is to see things in terms of the entire form of pattern rather than as individual parts. Gestalt psychology has four parts; figure-ground, similarity, proximity and closure, as I talked about and mentioned
above.