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Priming:
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Activating particular associations in memory.
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Belief Perserverance:
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Persistence of one's initial conceptions, as when the basis for one's belief is descredited but an explanation of why the belief might be true survives.
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Misinformation Effect:
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Incorporating "misinformation" into one's memory of the event, after witnessing an event and receiving misleading information about it.
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Controlled Processing:
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"Explicit" thinking that is deliberate, reflective, and conscious.
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Automatic Processing:
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"implicit" thinking that is effortless, habitual, and without awareness, roughly corresponds to "intuition".
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Overconfidence Phenomenon:
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The tendency to be more confident than correct-to overestimate the accuracy of one's beliefs.
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Confirmation bias:
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A tendency to search for information that confirms one's preconceptions.
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Hueristic:
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A thinking strategy that enables quick, efficient judgments.
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Representitiveness Heuristic:
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The tendency to presume, sometimes despite contrary odds, that someone or something belongs to a particular group if resembling (or representing) a typical member.
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Availablity Heuristic:
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A cognitive rule that judges the lielihood of things in terms of thier availability in memory. If instances of something come readily to mind, we presume it to be commonplace.
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Counterfactual Thinking:
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Imagining alternative scenarios and outcomes that might have happened, but didn't.
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Illusory Correlation:
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Perception of a relationship where none exists, or perception of a stonger relationship than actually exists.
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Illusion of Control:
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Perception of uncontrollable events as subject to one's control or as more controllable than they are.
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Regression Toward the Average:
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The statistical tendency for extreme scores or extreme behavior to return toward one's average.
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Misattribution:
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Mistakenly attributing a behavior to the wrong source.
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