Student ID; BC220213091

Name; Ghullam Mustafa

INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY

ASSIGNMENT No. 01
Topic: Schools of thought

Assignment objectives: Upon the completion of assignment, students will be able to:

• Understand and implement the Gestalt laws of perceptual organization.

Dear Students:

As we all know that Gestalt laws are ways are well devised ways in which we tend to observe
the world around us. They help us in understanding human perception in particular. They
make us aware how complex human perception can be. Your task is to read out the given
scenarios and identify which Gestalt law is being implemented here and then provide an
explanation of that law.

Serial
Scenarios Gestalt law (1) Explanation (3)
no.

1 Ahmed thought that people Proximity Things that are close together feel
who were talking to each other more associated than things that
at the festival were groups of are farther away, according to the
people. rule of proximity.

2 The wildlife photographer saw Similarity According to the rule of

blue birds with sharp feathers similarity, related objects usually
and black birds with furry appear in groups. Both visual and
appearance. He labelled them audio stimuli may be classified.
as two separate groups of birds.

Sana saw some birds Good Comparing to randomly placed

3 flying in a particular Continuation pieces, those in a line or curve tend
direction and she thought to be more connected to one another.
 that they are a group and
all going to their home
nest together.

Amna was solving her Closure The law of closure states that when
geometry paper. She saw elements seem to complete an object,
some lines that were we see them to be a part of the same
disconnected. She was group.
surprised to see that when
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she connected those lines, Contradictory information is
a circle or triangle would commonly missed by our brains, and
be formed. information gaps are filled.

Salman viewed the clouds Figure and According to this concept, your brain
and main figures as he Ground will try to simplify any unclear or
observed them along with complicated items when you offer
the sky. them to you.
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For example, when the Olympic
symbol is shown, you see
overlapping circles instead of a
collection of curved, interconnected
lines.