Connectedness Image Source: PixabayĬonnectedness is the fourth principle of the Gestalt principles. Our brains bring those notes together into one smooth unit through continuity. Music is individual notes that are strung together. Your brain brings all of these pictures, these disjointed pictures, together into one cohesive, smooth unit.Īnother great example of continuity is music. Movies are just millions of pictures put together and flipped through at a fast rate. A great example of this phenomenon is a movie. Continuity is that our brains tend to see objects as continuous or smooth rather than disjointed or discontinuous. The third Gestalt principle is continuity. If all of the dots were blue, then we would say that there was one group of blue dots. The only difference we see is in similarity, or in this case, the color. We perceive these two groups as such, because they have the same shape. There are white dots and there are blue dots. When looking at these dots one would say that there are two groups. Here, positions do not matter, because we are looking into how similar the objects are to each other.Īnother example is the picture above. For example, if there were five dogs of all different breeds and five cats of different breeds, then we would group them as cats and dogs. If proximity is due to position, then the Gestalt principle of similarity is how we piece information together by how similar objects are. Similarity Image Source: Wikimedia Commons If these dots were to be miles and miles apart, then we would not perceive them as being a group. The only reason that we perceive two different blocks of dots is because of their position, and how close they are to each other. In the picture the dots are all the same color, size, and shape. An example of this is in the picture above. The Gestalt principle of proximity is when an individual perceives several objects that are close together as belonging together. Proximity Image Source: Wikimedia Commons In this AP® Psychology review, we will cover these aspects of the Gestalt and apply them to the AP® exam to get you that 5 you are looking for. By perceiving objects as well as the world around us we reflect these Gestalt principles. These principles are divided up into five categories: proximity, similarity, continuity, connectedness, and closure. Gestalt principles are the different ways individuals group stimuli together in order to make a whole that makes sense to them. Within the AP® Psychology section of perception are the multifaceted principles of Gestalt.
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