direct and indirect psychology
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Gestalt psychologists' views and structuralists' views on the way the human vision's perception worked were the very opposite of each other. One believed that we automatically took what we were seeing as a whole and did not look at the individual details of the object. The other, believed that it took a combinations of sensory elements. There is no right or wrong answer when considering the two; in fact we use both of these principles in our visual system.
Gestalt psychologists believe that when certain things are presented to us visually, we tend to follow the same basic principles. For example, you could take a group of stimulus and move them at the same rate of speed together, and then it will appear that they are a single entity. Gestalt psychologists proposed a number of principles, one of which I just talked about. The one mentioned above is common movement. The rest of the principles are proximity, similarity, closure, good continuation, good form, and figure-ground division. A Gestalt psychologist also believed that one would look at the whole of a stimulus and not the details...