All of the following are types of Gestalt grouping principles described by Gestalt psychologists, except __________.

Proximity, closure, and similarity are Gestalt grouping principles: they describe how we group nearby, incomplete, or alike elements. Figure and ground describes how we organize a scene into a main object and its background, rather than how we group elements. Therefore, “figure and ground” is the exception.

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