Organizing principle

To perceive a stimulus which figure and which are left behind as the ground, there is some organizing principle.

Proximity principle; a person tends to perceive the stimuli are close together as a group.

Visual example:

In this example, a person will tend to see the picture there are two groups of red dots in comparison with the existing four-lane point.

For example in daily life, most people would perceive some people who are often seen together as a group / peer group. For those who do not know near members of the "group" that would confuse even the identity of one another, because each person [actually there are four lanes of a point] terlabur identity with the presence of another person [perceived as two groups of dots].


The principle of similarity; person will tend to perceive the same stimulus as a whole.

 : examples visual.

On this picture, although the distance between the same point, but people tend to perceive that there are two groups / lane point [ie, red dots and blue dots] than four rows of dots.


The principle of continuity; this principle suggests that the human brain works naturally to complement the information received is incomplete, although the actual stimulus.

examples visual  

On this picture, a person tends to perceive that there are two lines are crossed to form the letter "X", rather than seeing it as a collection of dots.

In everyday life, for example, is the phenomenon of how rumors can be so different from the facts. Fact received as information by a person, then forwarded to someone else after "equipped" with any other information considered relevant, although not yet a fact or facts unknown.





Here are examples of a more complex picture, which shows the operation of the principles outlined previously in human perception.

How many human faces that you can see in this picture?