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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 but an explanation of why the belief might be true lives
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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 taht is effortless, habitual, and without awareness, roughtly corresponds to "intuition".
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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 to a particular group if resembling a type of member.
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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 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 that 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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