Perception

The process of organzing and interpreting information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events

The tendency for vision to dominate the other senses

Means "an organized whole"

These psychologists emphasize our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes

The whole is greater than the sum of its part

The organization of the visual field into objects (figures) that stand out from their surroundings (ground)

The perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into groups that we understand