The document provides a sample exam to help prepare for an upcoming test on Wednesday. The exam will have 5 questions worth 2 points each, and will feature images to be displayed with an overhead projector. For each image, a question will ask about the Gestalt principles present. The document then provides an example image and question, and suggests answering by identifying the Gestalt principles of similarity, proximity, and closure at play in the image.

1. This is a sample to better prepare your exam on Wednesday.
I hope it will be helpful for you about what to do.
The exam is going to have five questions (two points each).
All the questions are going to be similar to this sample.

2. I am going to
show you
several
images with
the overhead
projector.
Let s work
on this one.

3. The first
thing you
must keep in
mind is that I
am going to
ask you a
question for
every image.
The question
is going to
be like the
one you can
see below.
What are the Gestalt principles we have in the image?

4. This should
SIMILARITY
be your
answer:
1
Because we
tend to put
together
shapes that
2
have similar
features like
the
1) windmills
2) barns
3) rolls
in the image.
3

5. And your
answer
should
continue:
PROXIMITY
Because we
tend to put
together
shapes that
are close to
each other,
like the
bushes in the
image. Of
course, this
principle
works
alongside
similarity.

6. And your
CLOUD
answer
should be
as well:
CITY
Because we
understand that
CLOSURE the lines of the
furrows are
behind the
FURROWS bushes, the
windmills, the
rolls and so on.
FURROWS It happens the
same with the city
in the background
FURROWS
or the cloud in the
sky. We mentally
complete what
remains from the
whole figure.

7. So, your written answer could be like this one:
1- We have similarity in the windmills (you can say “molinos” if you don t remember the
word in English), the rolls, the barns and even the bushes because we tend to put together
things that have a similar shape.
2- We have proximity in the bushes because we tend to put together things that are close to
each other. That is why we see the bushes as lines.
3- We have closure (not continuation) in the furrows (“surcos”), the cloud and the city
because we don t understand them as broken but as behind the different components of the
image. Closure allows us to perceive depth.