Posted: May 26th, 2017

Gestalt psychologists tell us that our perception of form is influenced by such principles as Similarity and Pragnanz (M45, B99) and that these principles are built into the human organism.

Gestalt psychologists tell us that our perception of form is influenced by such principles as Similarity and Pragnanz (M45, B99) and that these principles are built into the human organism. Bruner and others, however, initiated the cognitive approach to the study of psychological phenomena with “experiments that demonstrated subjective biases in the way people perceive the world” (M116). Provide a practical example from your own experience of a situation where a subjective bias influenced what you saw in the situation