PRECEPTION

GESTALT PRINCIPLES
BY: AAYUSHI PILLAI
LAWS OF PRECPTION
Gestalt psychologists proposed a number of principles or laws to explain
the process of perceptual organisation and those are:
• First Ground Figure
• Law of Closure
• Law of Continuity
• Law of Common Fate
• Law of Pragnaz
FIRST- GROUND FIGURE

• It is a person's ability to separate an object from its surrounding

visual field is referred to as figure-ground perception. The
object that a person focuses on is called the figure; everything
else is referred to as background, or simply ground.
THE LAW OF CONTINUTY

• The Gestalt principle of Continuity states that we are more likely to see
continuous and smooth flowing lines rather than broken or jagged ones. This is
because once our eyes begin to follow something, they will continue to travel in
that direction until it encounters another item or object.
THE LAW OF CLOSURE

This law should not be confused with the law of proximity. This law states that we have a
tendency to perceive stimuli as closed shapes even with some missing parts.
LAW OF PRAGNAZ

The word Pragnaz is German in origin, meaning “good figure”. This principle is
also called as “law of good figure”. According to this principle, out of all
possible ways of grouping stimuli, we tend to group stimuli in the simplest and
stable shape.