{"id":8056,"date":"2019-05-22T16:03:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/gestalt_good_form\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:03:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:03:33","slug":"gestalt_good_form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/gestalt_good_form\/","title":{"rendered":"Gestalt good form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Gestalt psychologists proposed a set of principles through which perceptual systems organise the input they receive so as to perceive objects as bounded units. &nbsp;Good form involves the tendency to perceive a complete regular form from fragmented perceptual input. &nbsp;The origin of the concept can be traced back to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/EBchecked\/topic\/180868\/Christian-Freiherr-baron-von-Ehrenfels\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/EBchecked\/topic\/180868\/Christian-Freiherr-baron-von-Ehrenfels&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Christian von Ehrenfels<\/a> (1859-1932) with his term &#8216;Gestaltqualit\u00e4t&#8217;, which denoted a perceptual attribute emerging from the way in which the bits and pieces of an image are assembled into a whole object not reducible to the sum of these elements.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"central_coherence\">Central coherence<\/a>, <a href=\"form_perception\">Form perception<\/a>, <a href=\"illusory_contours\">Illusory contours<\/a>, <a href=\"object_unity\">Object unity<\/a>, <a href=\"whole_is_greater_than_the_sum_of_its_parts\">Whole is greater than the sum of its parts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gestalt psychologists proposed a set of principles through which perceptual systems organise the input they receive so as to perceive objects as bounded units. &nbsp;Good form involves the tendency to perceive a complete regular form from fragmented perceptual input. &nbsp;The origin of the concept can be traced back to Christian von Ehrenfels (1859-1932) with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/gestalt_good_form\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gestalt good form&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}