Name: Jerichko Bauer L.

Laroco 06 / 23 / 18
Facilitating Learning, Educ 12

I. GESTALT PRINCIPLES
LAW DEFINITION EXAMPLE
1. Law of States that objects that are near or ‘proximate’ - Movies or Motion Pictures
Proximity to each other tend to be grouped together. It is - Movies are actually a rapid succession of
part of the Gestalt Laws of Perceptual still images that create a seamless visual
Organization and Gestalt psychology, which experience. This is also known as Phi
was founded by Max Wertheimer. Wertheimer Phenomenon
noted that rapid sequences of events create the
illusion of motion.
2. Law of How human perceive wholes. The fact that we - by looking at a group of letters
Similarity link things that are similar and treat them like a hhhhhhhhhh
distinct group is the law of similarity, qqqqqqqqqq
psychologist use this law to understand nnnnnnnnnn
behavior. pppppppppp
You would probably describe what you see
as four rows of letters instead of ten
columns of letters because we tend to
group similar things into whole sets.
3. Law of Closure Gestalt psychologists believe that the brain - A circle drawn using broken lines is still
tends to perceive forms and figures in their perceived by the brain as a circle. Through
complete appearance despite the absence of this example, we can infer the brain’s
one or more of their parts, either hidden or tendency to ignore the gaps and see the
totally absent.  figure as a circle. Previous experience with
the figure or form facilitates our natural
tendency to perceive an incomplete or
partially hidden object as the same object
that’s stored in our memory.
4. Law of Good Holds that humans tend to perceive each of two
Continuation or more objects as different, singular, and
uninterrupted object even when they intersect.
Individuals tend to group together as well as
organize curves, lines and other forms that are
found in similar directions. The alignment of
the objects or forms plays a major role for this
principle to take effect. This principle is well
used by educators in teaching young kids on
how to write the letters of the alphabet as well
as draw images.
5. Law of People will perceive and interpret ambiguous
Pragnanz or complex images as the simplest form(s)
possible. This is the fundamental principle of
gestalt. We prefer things that are simple, clear
and ordered. Instinctually these things are
safer. When confronted with complex shapes,
we tend to reorganize them into simpler
components or into a simpler whole. More
likely to see the image composed of the simple
circle, square and triangle as the complex and
ambiguous shape the whole forms.
6. Law of Figure / Elements are perceived as either figure (the
Ground element in focus) or ground (the background
on which the figure rests). Figure / ground
refers to the relationship between positive
elements and negative space. The idea is that
the eye will separate whole figures from their
background in order to understand what’s
being seen.

You either see a vase or two faces depending

on whether you see the black color as a figure
and the white as ground, or vice versa.
- Area
- Convexity
II. SUBSUMPTION THEORY
- Is concerned with how individuals learn large amounts of meaningful material from verbal / textual presentations
in a school setting (in contrast to theories developed in the context of laboratory experiments)
 Graphic Organizers
 Analogy Graphic Organizer

New Concept Familiar Concept

Similarities Differences

Relationship Categories

 Concept Maps
 Circle Map

Categories that the ideas fit into

Words / ideas / knowledge

About the topic

Topic

Summarizing sentences