Answer the following question in 3-4 complete sentences. Explain what you see in the image on the left, verses the image on the right. What a person sees when looking at the above two pictures depends on what concept?

Answer:

The image can be perceived in two different ways depending on whether the black or white area is seen as the figure. In one view, the black area looks like a vase and the white area forms two faces looking at each other; when the colors are inverted, the figure and background seem to switch. What a person sees depends on the Gestalt concept of figure-ground organization, or how the mind separates an object from its background.