Answer to Question #308576 in Psychology for Hle

Question

You are watching a six year old child playing with Lego toy blocks. He starts arranging the blocks according to theirs shapes and sizes. What principle of perceptual grouping is evident in this scenario?

Answer 1

Perceptual grouping is a process that involves determining parts and regions of a scene that is visual of parts belonging together to perceptual units of a higher order like patterns or objects. Gestalt is the developer of the perceptual grouping principles. From the above scenario where the kid is arranging Lego toy blocks according to their sizes and shape, the kid is using the similarity principle. Since, the similarity principle is of the view that objects are organized based on their relatedness. Hence, the kid is organizing them based on their relatedness of size and shape.