Describe the four principles of perceptual organization.
What will be an ideal response?
The four principles are the principle of continuity, the principle of proximity, the
principle of similarity, and the principle of closure. The principle of continuity is the
tendency to experience stimuli that follow some predictable pattern as a perceptual
unit. The principle of proximity is the tendency to perceptually group together stimuli
that are physically close. The principle of similarity is the tendency to perceive as units
stimuli that are physically similar to one another. The principle of closure is the
tendency to perceive incomplete objects as complete.
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