Your 3-year-old child is standing behind a vertical post so that you cannot see part of his upper arm.Although you cannot see that part of his arm,you perceive his arm as whole and unbroken.Your filling in the missing piece is referred to as
A) simplicity.
B) figure-ground.
C) closure.
D) continuity.

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Closure is the tendency to complete incomplete figures or forms by filling in missing information. In this case, because the child's arm is partially hidden, our brain fills in the missing piece, assuming that the arm is whole and unbroken despite not being able to see part of it.

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