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Change Blindness |
A phenomenon in which individuals fail to notice changes in visual stimuli that are occurring right in front of them. |
Counting passes of ball with bear running by. |
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Cold Reading |
A set of techniques one can use to make it appear that one is acquiring information from a supernatural source. The techniques do not require much advance preparation. |
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Hot Reading |
When one acquires advanced information, but acts as if they are discovering it on the spot through supernatural means. |
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Pereidolia |
A psychological phenomena in which vague or random stimuli are seen as significant or meaningful. |
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Studies by Elizabeth Loftus |
Videos of car crash, then asked questions with key words "smashed", fed false information, false narratives that occurred when they were young. |
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Judgment |
The act of drawing conclusions from perceptions and memory. |
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Gambler's Fallacy |
A fallacy in which one assumes that if something happens more frequently than normal during a certain period of time, it will happen less frequently in the future, or if something happens less frequently during a certain period of time, it will happen more often in the future. |
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Milgram Experiment |
A very famous experiment first performed in the 1960s which showed the power of authority in getting people to do horrible things. |
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Asch Experiment |
Another famous experiment that shows the power of human conformity. |
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Forer Effect |
Our tendency to accept vague and general descriptions that would apply to anyone as specific or meaningful to us. |
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The Wason Selection Task |
A logic puzzle that demonstrates the difficulties we have with abstract reasoning. |
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WEIRD |
Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic |
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Hume's Maxim |
A principle for determining whether or not to believe a miracle. When confronted by some extraordinary claim, we should only believe the claim if it's truth is more likely than that the person reporting the claim was deceived or is lying. Put another way, "Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." |
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