A cognitive bias is the error in general thinking or perceiving the things around them, which affects decisions and judgements. Biases can be due to either memory problems or lack of attention. Bias should not be confused with logical fallacies. Logical fallacies are caused by errors in logical arguments, whereas biases are problems due to problems in thought processing.
I came across many examples from everyday life of the human perception biases. I have collected some of them here.
We take the several blue dots as a line instead of many dots
Law of closure
Although the bell is covered partially by a numbered square, we can recognize the bell.
White space is used to create the sense if closure.
Many perceptions in a plug like the 3 holes make the formation of a face, their proximity makes us understand that they are related to each other, the holes are enclosed by a border.
Dent on a car looks like a beach
Law of synchrony
