On Perceptual Grouping Adapted from Max Wertheimer, Untersuchen zur Lehre von der Gestalt, II. Psychologishe Forshung Now we turn to Wertheimer's consideration of perceptual grouping . What is most important about this work in the present context is that Wertheimer attempted to see what our mind does against a consideration of what our mind might have done. In the work we review here, Wertheimer explores the way we typically perceptually group elements. But in order to determine whether the mind is exerting a "bias" he considers some of the ways these same elements could have been grouped but weren't. The behaviorists typically weren't this analytic. Consequently, it was the gestaltist that kept trying to point out these pesky problems that can arise when you are a bit more analytic about what you are up to. The examples that Wertheimer constructed were very simple; most of them consisted of a set of dots. The purpose of these examples was to aid in the understanding of the different factors that influenced the grouping or composition of elements into wholes. The gestaltist had suggested what they called unit forming factors that influence how elements are grouped or organized in wholes. These unit forming factors were: | |
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