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The study of mental processes such as "attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and thinking".Much of the work derived from cognitive psychology has been integrated into various other modern disciplines of psychological study including educational psychology, social psychology, personality psychology, abnormal psychology, developmental psychology, and economics.

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Tendency for decisions to be influenced by how they are stated (framed) • Disease scenarios: Decisions depended on whether programs were stated in terms of lives saved or lost

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

Mistaken belief that the probability of a random event in the short run will match its probability in the long run.

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

Occur when a correlation between two events appears to exist, but in reality there is no correlation or it’s much weaker than it is assumed to be.

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

Improved problem-solving performance after a delay during which the problem is temporarily set aside.

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

Reasoning in which a conclusion follows from a consideration of evidence. • The conclusion is probably true, but it could be false.

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

A system of communication using sounds or symbols that enables us to express our feelings, thoughts, ideas, and experiences Unique properties of human language • Hierarchical: Multiple small ...

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

The larger the sample size, the more representative a sample will be of the population from which it was chosen Eg: larger hospital: 45 babies are born each day; smaller hospital, 15 babies. Over a ...

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

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