Psychology › Section E · Sensation and perception › Topic E.6
Gestalt principles of perception
Your brain does not record the world like a camera; it organises scattered sensations into objects, groups, depth and motion, using rules so reliable that designers and illusion makers can exploit them. This topic covers those rules and what happens when expectation pushes perception off course.
In this topic
- A whole that differs from its parts
- Figure and ground
- Grouping principles
- Worked example: reading a metro map
- Perceptual hypotheses and perceptual set
- When expectation becomes bias
- Depth and the visual cliff
- Seeing motion
- Constancy and illusions
- Worked example: the Ames room
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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