Question

While at a concert you notice five people in the crowd headed in the same direction. Your tendency to group them is due to? *

Answer 1

common fate

Step-by-step explanation:

The gestalt effect may be defined as the ability of our brain to generate the whole forms from the groupings of lines, points, curves and shapes. Gestalt theory lays emphasis on the fact that whole of anything is much greater than the parts.

Some of the principles of Gestalt theory are proximity, similarity, closure, symmetry & order, figure or ground and common fate.

Common fate : According to this principle, people will tend to group things together which are pointed towards or moving in a same direction. It is the perception of the people that objects moving together belongs together.