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Seeing the world around usand making sense of it seems very easy. For instance we don’t have to thinkmuch to know that we are standing on a pavement or that there are several carsmoving in both directions on the road.
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Seeing the world around us and making sense of it seems very easy. For instance we don't have to think much to know that we are standing on a pavement or that there are several cars moving in both directions on the road. According to Gregory (1998), the processes involved in producing these organised and meaningful interpretations of information from our environment is called Perception. Over the century there has been continuous research into perception, however the Gestalt psychologist carried out the first systematic study of perceptual organisation. Gestalt psychologists were concerned with the study of perception, particularly visual perception and organisation, which is the ability to work out which parts of the visual information presented to us, belong together and therefore form separate objects. A major objective for these psychologists was to explain why the world looks the way it does to people in natural settings. This group of Gestaltist included...
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