I guess all of you would have at one point or the other received many visual perception e-mail forwards from your friends of yours,or, aptitude tests, have you ever wondered how these images work. How is that, unless you observe it carefully, you are un able to notice embeded images..?
By seeing the above picture are you wondering weather you are seeing face of 2 people facing each other or is it a vase kept in a dark room…?
Or in the above picture do see just the face of 2 old people facing each other at first glance and later on if you observe, did you notice several other images??
How do we perceive the image differently??
Here goes the answer..
[Gestalt psychology is a school of thought that looks at the human mind and behavior as a whole. Originating in the work of Max Wertheimer, Gestalt psychology formed partially as a response to the structuralism of Wilhelm Wundt.]
According to them it is based on “Figure-ground”
Basically, we seem to have an innate tendency to perceive one aspect of an event as the figure or fore-ground and the other as the ground or back-ground. There is only one image here, and yet, by changing nothing but our attitude, we can see two different things. It doesn’t even seem to be possible to see them both at the same time!
But the gestalt principles are by no means restricted to perception -- that’s just where they were first noticed. Take, for example, memory. That too seems to work by these laws. If you see an irregular saw-tooth figure, it is likely that your memory will straighten it out for you a bit. Or, if you experience something that doesn’t quite make sense to you, you will tend to remember it as having meaning that may not have been there. A good example is dreams: Watch yourself the next time you tell someone a dream and see if you don’t notice yourself modifying the dream a little to force it to make sense!
Gestalt Picture: Do you see a beautiful girl or an old lady?
Individuals acquire different perspectives from the same physical reality. The Gestalt picture is a representation of this fact.
Obviously, a portion of state reduction is happening inside the brain of each individual. That is where we obtain our individual perspectives. However, there are many common elements between different individual’s perspectives from the same physical phenomenon. So the main portion of state reduction has to occur outside one’s consciousness.We may conclude that during the act of logical thinking our consciousness selects and permits only the suitable data to appear in our awareness. That is how we draw a meaningful conclusion out of a chaotic situation. Our consciousness is responsible in creating an orderly concept or perspective out of countless disarrayed data .
So friends now you know the principle behind visual perception go solve your aptitude puzzels...with lesser chances of failures..!
If you want to know more about visual perception and gestalt psychology ,
here is a a link from http://www.amazon.com/ :
1. Born To Win: Transactional Analysis With Gestalt Experiments
2. Skills in Gestalt Counselling & Psychotherapy (Skills in Counselling & Psychotherapy Series)
3. Thinking: From Association to Gestalt (Perspectives in Psychology)
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