Monday, February 8, 2010

Session 3: Theoretical Issues - Gestalt Principles

Getalt is a psychology term and it was developed by German psychologists in the 1920s. It can be defined as "unified whole'. People organize visual elements into groups when the following principles are applied.

(http://graphicdesign.spokanefalls.edu/tutorials/process/gestaltprinciples/gestaltprinc.htm)

- Similarity
- Continuation
- Closure
- Proximity
- Figure and Ground

Human receive information should be the same basically. However, we might get different idea of that information after the brain processing by indivual.

The picture on the left is actually not completely enclosed. However, if there is enough shape is indicated, people cab percive the whole picture by filling in the missing data. This is the one of the Closure example in Gestalt Principles.


The study is quite interesting, it gave us the opportunity to understand more about this psychologic theory and have some hints about what people perceived in giving the same information.

1 comment:

  1. Getalt Principle is really difficult to understand. It is an abstract conception.

    However, psychological assumption are involed in learning theory and we need to understand how ppl translate the information they perceived, so I still try hard to understand it.

    pauline

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