When You Look into the Two Classrooms in Hardin Hall

question 601

Multiple Choice

When you look into the two classrooms in Hardin Hall, the desks appear to form vertical rows, while the seats that are side-by-side in the Hardin auditorium appear to form horizontal rows.The different perceptual groupings of these seats illustrate which principle?

• A) closure
• B) contiguity
• C) nearness
• D) figure-ground

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