When you are looking out a window at the street and see a parked car partially blocked by a telephone pole, you perceive the car as a whole object, even though your sensations of it are disjointed. This is due to the gestalt law of
A) proximity
B) closure
C) good continuation
D) similarity

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The gestalt law of closure suggests that when presented with disjointed sensations, our brain tends to fill in the gaps and perceive the object as a cohesive whole. In this case, the parked car is partially blocked by a telephone pole, but our brain fills in the missing information to perceive it as a whole object.

When You Are Looking Out a Window at the Street