Boundary Extension
A cognitive bias where people remember scenes as being more expansive than they actually were.
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“user cognition”
Functional Fixedness
A cognitive bias that limits a person to using an object only in the way it is traditionally used.
Peak End Rule
A cognitive bias where people judge an experience largely based on how they felt at its peak (most intense point) and its end, rather than the total sum of the experience.
Human Factors
The study of how humans interact with systems and products, focusing on improving usability and performance.
System Two
A mode of thinking, derived from Dual Process Theory, that is slow, deliberate, and analytical, requiring more cognitive effort and conscious reasoning.
Overconfidence Effect
A cognitive bias where a person's subjective confidence in their judgments is greater than their objective accuracy.
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.
Signifier
A visual or auditory cue that indicates how to interact with an element in the user interface.
Primacy Effect
The tendency for the first items presented in a sequence to be remembered better than those in the middle.