You are standing at the intersection of two perpendicular roads.You see one road running north-south and another road running east-west.You do not see one road running north and then turning east and another road running east then turning north.Which Gestalt principle accounts for what you do and do not see?
A) similarity
B) good continuation
C) parallelism
D) closure

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The principle of good continuation states that elements that appear to follow in the same direction are perceived as a unit or group. In this scenario, because we see one uninterrupted road running north-south and another uninterrupted road running east-west, we perceive them as two separate groups following the same direction. We do not see a road turning because it would interrupt the flow of continuity in the directions of the two roads.

You Are Standing at the Intersection of Two Perpendicular Roads