Afzal pulled into a parking spot and turned off the motor, interrupting a song on the radio a few notes from the end. Afzal found himself whistling the rest of the song. His behaviour might best be understood in terms of the Gestalt principle of

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The Gestalt principle of closure refers to the way our minds tend to fill in missing pieces or gaps in a design or pattern, so that we perceive the object as a whole. In this case, Afzal's whistling the rest of the song can be seen as filling in the missing piece of the song, similar to how our minds complete incomplete patterns.

Afzal Pulled into a Parking Spot and Turned Off the Motor