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Serial-position effect

We tend to recall the first(Primacy effect) and last items(Recency effect) in a series.

Tagged With: Cognitive Bias, What to remember, Reduce events and lists,

Self-reference effect

We remember things better if we are affected by the information.

Tagged With: Cognitive Bias, What to remember, Store memory differently based on the experience, memory,

Selective Perception

Not notice/quickly forget things that cause us emotional discomfort and contradict our prior beliefs.

Tagged With: Cognitive Bias, Information Overload, Drawn existing beliefs,

Reverse psychology

Reverse psychology is a manipulation technique that asks someone to do something opposite to the action that is actually required.

Tagged With: Cognitive Bias, Need to Act fast, Want to have autonomy and status,

Placebo effect

An inert pill can cure health issues if the patient believes that it will.

Tagged With: Cognitive Bias, Need for Meaning, Jump to conclusions using stereotypes,

Peak End Rule

We judge an experience based on what happens at either the peak(most intense part of the experience) or at the end of the event rather that the entire event.

Tagged With: Cognitive Bias, What to remember, Reduce events and lists, memory, heuristic,

Observer-expectancy effect

Experimenters interpreting results incorrectly because they have a pre-existing hypothesis.

Tagged With: Cognitive Bias, Information Overload, Drawn existing beliefs,

Modality effect

Our memory of things we study is based on the presentations of the material.

Tagged With: Cognitive Bias, What to remember, Reduce events and lists,

Misinformation effect

Our memory can change and become less accurate based on information we get after the event.

Tagged With: Cognitive Bias, What to remember, Reduce events and lists, memory,

Illusion of control

We overestimate how much control we have over situations.

Tagged With: Cognitive Bias, Feel important and impactful, Need to Act fast,