In psychology, continuity is the ability to create continuous uninterrupted patterns in perpetuity. It’s a theory in Gestalt psychology’s five laws of grouping and is also called continuation. These are a set of principles created to try to understand why humans see patterns in so many different objects, even when none exist.
The five laws of grouping in Gestalt psychology are:
- Proximity
- Similarity
- Continuity
- Closure
- Connectedness
