The Gestalt principal is seeing things how you want to see them not how they really are. The example in the text is spelling errors in different context and how people automatically correct the spelling error based on the context even though the word is clearly wrong. Like in a sentence about banking the person will read "chick" as "check" because their mind automatically assumes since the context has to do with banking.
an example that I see is song lyrics. The Gestalt principal applies to hearing song lyrics based on context even though those aren't the real lyrics. For example this one song by Panic! At The Disco is called "Hurricane" and it goes, "Drop our anchors in the storm," and then the lyrics are, "A fire in a flask to keep us warm" but for the longest time my friends and I thought that the lyrics were, "Fighting abreast to keep us warm" which is an example of the Gestalt principal because in the context of battling a water storm it makes sense.
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