Shallow Processing
A cognitive approach where information is processed at a surface level, focusing on basic features rather than deeper meaning, often leading to poorer memory retention.
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Serial Position Effect
A cognitive bias where people tend to remember the first and last items in a series better than those in the middle, impacting recall and memory.
Focusing Effect
A cognitive bias where people place too much importance on one aspect of an event, causing errors in judgment.
Ratio Bias
A cognitive bias where people judge the likelihood of an event based on its relative size rather than absolute probability.
Ambiguity Effect
A cognitive bias where decision-making is affected by the lack of information or uncertainty.
Empathy Gap
A cognitive bias where people underestimate the influence of emotional states on their own and others' behavior.
Pessimism Bias
A cognitive bias that causes people to overestimate the likelihood of negative outcomes.
Confirmation Bias
The tendency to search for, interpret, and remember information in a way that confirms one's preexisting beliefs or hypotheses.
Subadditivity Effect
A cognitive bias where the total probability assigned to a set of events is less than the sum of the probabilities assigned to each event individually.