We tend to interpret visual stimuli in the way that produces the best, simplest, and most stable possible shape. This tendency is called _____, and the Gestalt psychologists believed that this law encompassed all the other Gestalt principles.
A)Dunker's law
B)Weber's law
C)the Müller-Lyer law
D)the law of Prägnanz

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The law described in the question is the law of Prägnanz, which states that we tend to interpret visual stimuli in the way that produces the best, simplest, and most stable possible shape. The other options, Dunker's law, Weber's law, and the Müller-Lyer law, are all different principles that describe specific phenomena related to perception, but they do not encompass all the other Gestalt principles.

We Tend to Interpret Visual Stimuli in the Way That