ce in each part depends on the whole and this is true of all perceptual experience. Perception includes a totality or whole and Gestaltists view the task of psychology as accounting for this by exploring its characteristics as a structure and not by explaining it away. Gestalt psychology explored immediate experience (Watson, 1971, pp. 452-453).
Wertheimer formulated the principles of organization of Gestalten; they had specific reference to perception or how Gestalten were organized. He used visual phenomena (dots, lines, figures of lines) or auditory stimuli (musical notes) and presented several principles. The principle of proximity refers to parts being close together, being perceived together; When things are close together in time or space they are grouped together. This is found in an example such as tap-tap, pause, tap-tap, pause, tap-tap, in which the two taps together are heard as belonging together, instead of the last tap before the pause being perceived as related to the first tap after the pause. An example of space, is dots close together seen as a group (Watson, 1971, pp. 454-455).
The principle of similarity can be explained by an example. Dots of the same shape or color are easily seen as a group and distinguished from those of a different shape or color that form another group. These principles demonstrate that people respond to the nature of the setting in which stimuli are found rather than to the isolated stimuli. This concept led to the development of other laws of Gestalten; by 1933, 114 separate laws were isolated (Watson, 1971, p. 455).
Gestalt psychology considered perception. Kohler stated that when actual perceptions have disappeared, traces of them must be in the nervous system; he wondered what these traces were. He reasoned that perceptual fields have the individual objects and other products of organization like segregated groups
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