Practice question · Multiple choice
Look at a vase-or-faces image and you see one, then the other, never both at once. What does that flip demonstrate about perception?
Hints
- Nothing about the ink changes between one perception and the next. Ask what does.
- Figure and ground is a decision. Who is making it?
Show the answer
C. That the visual system imposes an organisation on unchanging data
Why
The stimulus is constant and your experience is not, so something between the two is choosing, and you cannot choose both readings at once. Perception is construction, not transmission, which is the entire Gestalt claim compressed into one picture.
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