Consider the Two Following Patterns: >>>>><<<<< ;

question 143

Multiple Choice

Consider the two following patterns: >>>>><<<<< ; +++++*****.The ten characters in the first pattern are perceived as a single figure,whereas the ten characters in the second pattern are perceived as two groups of five characters each.Which Gestalt principle accounts for this outcome?

• A) similarity
• B) symmetry
• C) proximity
• D) closure

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