Premack Principle
A strategy where engaging, preferred activities are used to motivate users to complete less engaging, necessary tasks.
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“system behavior”
Seven Stages of Action
A model by Don Norman outlining the cognitive steps users take when interacting with a system: goal formation, planning, specifying, performing, perceiving, interpreting, and comparing.
Myopic Loss Aversion
A cognitive bias where individuals tend to avoid risks when they perceive potential losses more acutely than potential gains.
Information Ecology
The study of the relationships between people, practices, values, and technologies within an information environment.
Opportunity Cost Neglect
A cognitive bias where individuals overlook or underestimate the cost of opportunities they forego when making decisions.
Negativity Bias
The tendency to give more weight to negative experiences or information than positive ones.
Principle of Objects
The Principle of Objects is an information architecture guideline that treats content as living, distinct entities with behaviors and attributes.
Overconfidence Effect
A cognitive bias where a person's subjective confidence in their judgments is greater than their objective accuracy.
User Control
The ability of users to influence the behavior and outcomes of a system or product, allowing them to interact with it according to their preferences.