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priming
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activating particular associations in memory
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belief perseverance
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persistance of one's initial conceptions, as when the basis for one's belief is discredited...
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misinformation effect
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incorporating "misinformation" into one's memory of the event, after witnessing an event and...
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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 taht is effortless, habitual, and without awareness, roughtly corresponds...
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overconfidence
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the tendency to be more confident that 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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heuristic
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a thinking strategy that enables quick, efficient judgments
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representativeness heuristic
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the tendency to presume, sometimes despite contrary odds, that someone or something belongs...
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availability heuristic
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a cognitive rule that judges the likelihood of things in terms of their availability in memory....
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counterfactual thinking
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imagining alternative scenarios and outcomes that might ahve happened, but didnt.
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illusory correlation
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perception of a relationship where none exists, or perception of a stronger relationship that...
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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 that...
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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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attribution theory
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the theory of how people explain others' behavior either internal or external
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dispositional attribution
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attributing behavior to the peron's disposition and traits.
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situational attribution
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attributing behavior to the environment
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fundamental attribution error
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the tendency for observers to underestimate situational influences and overestimate dispositional...
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self-awareness
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a self-conscious state in which attention focuses on oneself. It makes people more sensitive...
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self-fulfilling prophecy
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a brief that leads to its own fulfillment
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behavioral confirmation
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a type of self-fulfilling prophecy whereby people's social expectations lead them to behave...
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