Question

While attending a cocktail party, you find you can clearly hear one particular conversation above all the others, even though hat conversation is not very loud. To a Gestalt psychologist, the conversation represents the _____ and the rest of the party is the _____.

Answer 1

Answer:

Figure - Ground

Explanation:

While attending a cocktail party, you find you can clearly hear one particular conversation above all the others, even though that conversation is not very loud. To a Gestalt psychologist, the conversation represents the figure and the rest of the party is the ground. According to Gestalt psychologists, we tend to perceive in a figure-ground organization. In this example, the figure is the conversation and the other noises the ground or background.