At a party where you don't know anybody, you meet a group of women who are standing together. Later, you meet one of these women, and you picture the group with whom she stood at the party. You are using which law of organization?
A) proximity
B) similarity
C) closure
D) ambiguity

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Proximity refers to the idea that objects or people that are close together in space are perceived as belonging together. In this scenario, the group of women were physically close to each other, so our brain groups them together as a cohesive unit. When we meet one of the women later, we automatically associate her with the group due to this principle of proximity.

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