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6733829907retroactive inhinitiontendency of later learning to hinder the memory of previously learned material0
6733836675confirmation biasoccurs from the direct infulence of desire on beliefs . We want something to be true so we believe it1
6733845042availibility heuristicmental shortcut that helps our mind make fast decisions. See shooting in ky, believe we have more than ohio2
6733852970misunderstanding of correlationfailure to understand that corellation does not imply causation3
6733858774proactive interferenceold behaviors inhibit new learning; hard to think of new address because the keep remembering the old one4
6733868601correlation researcha relationship between two variables.5
6733871704overjustification effectoccurs when an expected external incentive such as money or prizes decreases a person's intrinsic motivation to perform a task.6
6733871705source amnesiainability to remember how previosly learned info has been acquired7
6733877248retroactive intereferencethe tendency of later learning to hinder the memory of previously learned material.8
6733881120prospective memoryinvolves remembering to perform a planned action or recall a planned intention at some future point in time9
6733913325gesalt principle of closurestates that individuals perceive objects such as shapes, letters, pictures, etc., as being whole when they are not complete.10
6733919164statistical significancethe quality of being worthy of attention; importance.11
6733967231feature detectorsindividual neurons—or groups of neurons—in the brain which code for perceptually significant stimuli12
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