Proximity

The proximity rule states that we group together things that are physically close, as opposed to those objects that are farther apart. 

A real life example is how we visually group together people that are close together in the hallways at school.

https://www.osep-meeting.org/2012conf/largegroup/Tues_BestPracticesPublicInformationCommunityEngagement/best_practices.htm

Similarity

The Rule of perceptual organization that states in organizing stimuli, we group like things together. The similarity can be in terms of any dimension, shape, size, color, etc

A real world example of similarity is found in the categorizing of items into groups

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_classification)

Continuity

Description- The law of continuity states that people have a tendency to favor continuous paths when interpreting a series of lines or points.

Our brain interprets the items formation as a V when looking at a group of them together





http://karthijaygee.wordpress.com/2011/01/02/do-you-know-why-do-birds-fly-in-v-

Closure

Description- The law of closure states in organizing stimuli we tend to fill in any missing parts of a figure and see the figure as complete.

When we look at the picture of the IBM symbol our brain fills in the missing pieces in order to see it as complete.

http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/analysis/2300044/cloud-is-coming-ibm-aims-to-cash-in-on-inevitable-cloud-use-with-softlayer-setup