If You Watch a Flock of Birds Flying Overhead, Each

question 19

Multiple Choice

If you watch a flock of birds flying overhead, each very close to the next one, you may perceive them as all being part of the same group. If they were all spaced very much apart, however, you may see them as individual birds not flying together. This distinction takes advantage of which Gestalt principle?

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

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