pareidolia
perception
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apophenia
- In apophenia: Forms of apophenia
In pareidolia, illusory perception is visual, and thus individuals tend to see familiar patterns, such as faces or objects, in random stimuli; for example, a person may see images of animals or figures in clouds or rock formations. Gambler’s fallacy is the erroneous belief that an…
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