Figure Ground Relationships: The Gestalt Principles

The Gestalt Principles refer to one of their principles as figure ground relationships, which is the tendency to perceive objects or figures as existing on a background. One way to view this relationship would be with reversible figures that can cause one to see one thing at first, but then see something completely different the next time when viewing it. It is known that people as young as birth have a tendency of picking out pictures from backgrounds.
As well, another principle would be similarity and how it is identified as the tendency to perceive things that look similar as being part of the same group. For example, as early as grade school people are trained to be able to see similar things that go together, such as objects being the

same shape, size, and color. The purpose of this is for kids to be able to identify and understand things more clearly when trying to put objects together. Therefore, it has always been normal for human beings in adulthood to perceive things subconsciously into similar groups.
Furthermore, another understanding of perceptual organizations would be the understanding of proximity, which focuses on the tendency one has to view objects that are close to one another as part of the same grouping. To have a better grasp of this perception would be when completing math problems that require one to find the area of multiple rows next to one another. It forces people to use this in order to complete and have a better understanding of the question that is being asked.
In addition, one of Gestalt’s principles would be the perception of closure, which is the tendency to complete figures that are incomplete. In the beginning stages of school the education system teaches children how to trace shapes together when they are incomplete, in order for them to understand incomplete objects more clearly. This causes individuals to do this exact thing that children do when tracing objects subconsciously in adulthood.