Gestalt Principles of Grouping
The Gestalt psychologists sincerely believed that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. In order to interpret what we receive through our senses, they theorized that we attempt to organize this information into certain groups. This allows us to interpret the information completely without unneeded repetition. The Gestalt principles of grouping include four types: similarity, proximity, continuity, and closure. For example, when you see one dot, you perceive it as such, but when you see five dots together, you group them together by saying a “row of dots.”\cite{allpsych}