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6733829907	retroactive inhinition	tendency of later learning to hinder the memory of previously learned material	0
6733836675	confirmation bias	occurs from the direct infulence of desire on beliefs . We want something to be true so we believe it	1
6733845042	availibility heuristic	mental shortcut that helps our mind make fast decisions. See shooting in ky, believe we have more than ohio	2
6733852970	misunderstanding of correlation	failure to understand that corellation does not imply causation	3
6733858774	proactive interference	old behaviors inhibit new learning; hard to think of new address because the keep remembering the old one	4
6733868601	correlation research	a relationship between two variables.	5
6733871704	overjustification effect	occurs when an expected external incentive such as money or prizes decreases a person's intrinsic motivation to perform a task.	6
6733871705	source amnesia	inability to remember how previosly learned info has been acquired	7
6733877248	retroactive intereference	the tendency of later learning to hinder the memory of previously learned material.	8
6733881120	prospective memory	involves remembering to perform a planned action or recall a planned intention at some future point in time	9
6733913325	gesalt principle of closure	states that individuals perceive objects such as shapes, letters, pictures, etc., as being whole when they are not complete.	10
6733919164	statistical significance	the quality of being worthy of attention; importance.	11
6733967231	feature detectors	individual neurons—or groups of neurons—in the brain which code for perceptually significant stimuli	12
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