Is it a rabbit or a duck? How many legs?
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Gestalt occurs when we only have partial information and we tend to fill in missing info. For instance, many optical illusions illustrate the concept of GESTALT. Stereotypes are also a type of GESTALT which are normal for us to use, but can become negative when we rely only on the generalization instead of facts.
Is it a rabbit or a
duck?
How many legs?
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Where does it all
connect?
How many squares do you see?
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MC Escher was also well known for his mathematical Tessellations which played with people's perception...
Where do the pillars
settle?
Tessellations
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Black geese or white
geese?
M.C. Escher Self-Porttrait