Focal Points
Elements in a design that draw the viewer's attention and create a visual hierarchy.
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Illusory Truth Effect
A cognitive bias where repeated statements are more likely to be perceived as true, regardless of their actual accuracy.
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.
State-Dependent Memory
A phenomenon where people are more likely to remember information when they are in the same state of consciousness as when they learned it.
Levels-of-Processing Effect
A theory that suggests the depth of processing (shallow to deep) affects how well information is remembered.
Automaticity
The ability to perform actions or behaviors automatically due to learning, repetition, and practice.
Declarative Memory
A type of long-term memory involving information that can be consciously recalled, such as facts and events.
Suffix Effect
The phenomenon where people have a reduced ability to recall the last items in a list when additional, unrelated information is added at the end.
Chunking
A cognitive process that groups information into manageable units, making it easier to remember and process.