Closure is a process of reconstructing the figure when pieces are missing, disjointed or distorted.
Closure: A point to be made with all this, is that you can't always hold up something before a child (or an adult) and say, "Don't you see it, it's right before your eyes!" Because we may all look at the same figure and see different things--or nothing, as we shall see in our discussion of closure.
In many instances, the figure is incomplete. Pieces of it may be obliterated, or the figure may be disjointed, or it may be distorted. When this occurs, our brain tries to recreate it in a process called closure.
There is a natural (innate) tendency to achieve closure . When it is relatively simple, the Laws of Pragnanz will guide the process. The figures on the next page are a good example of this. When the task becomes more complex, the factors of past experiences and learning become critical. Closure may fail to occur because of an organically based closure disability, but it could also be simply a lack of familiarity with the object.