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A source book of Gestalt psychology.Laws of organization in perceptual forms.

A source book of Gestalt psychology.: Laws of organization in perceptual forms. When we are presented with a number of stimuli we do not as a rule experience "a number" of individual things, this one and that and that. Instead larger wholes separated from and related to one another are given in experience; their arrangement and division are concrete and definite. Do such arrangements and divisions follow definite principles? When the stimuli abcde appear together what are the principles according to which abc/de and not ab/cde is experienced? It is the purpose of this paper to examine this problem, and we shall therefore begin with cases of discontinuous stimulus constellations. (The complete version of this article appeared as "Untersuchungen zur Lehre von der Gestalt," II, Psychol. Forsch., 1923, 4, 301-350.) (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Publisher
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company
Copyright
Copyright © 1938 American Psychological Association
Pages
71 –88
DOI
10.1037/11496-005
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When we are presented with a number of stimuli we do not as a rule experience "a number" of individual things, this one and that and that. Instead larger wholes separated from and related to one another are given in experience; their arrangement and division are concrete and definite. Do such arrangements and divisions follow definite principles? When the stimuli abcde appear together what are the principles according to which abc/de and not ab/cde is experienced? It is the purpose of this paper to examine this problem, and we shall therefore begin with cases of discontinuous stimulus constellations. (The complete version of this article appeared as "Untersuchungen zur Lehre von der Gestalt," II, Psychol. Forsch., 1923, 4, 301-350.) (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

Published: Aug 13, 2007

Keywords: laws of organization; perception; Gestalt psychology; stimuli

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