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  2. Mere-exposure effect - Wikipedia

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    Gustav Fechner conducted the earliest known research on the effect in 1876. [2] Edward B. Titchener also documented the effect and described the "glow of warmth" felt in the presence of something familiar; [3] however, his hypothesis was thrown out when results showed that the enhancement of preferences for objects did not depend on the individual's subjective impressions of how familiar the ...

  3. Frequency illusion - Wikipedia

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    The process of frequency illusion is inseparable from selective attention, due to the cause-and-effect relationship between the two, so the "frequent" object, phrase, or idea has to be selective. This means that a particularly triggering or emotive stimulus could catch someone's attention, possibly more than a mundane task they are preoccupied ...

  4. List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia

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    Description Availability bias: Greater likelihood of recalling recent, nearby, or otherwise immediately available examples, and the imputation of importance to those examples over others. Bizarreness effect: Bizarre material is better remembered than common material. Boundary extension

  5. Word frequency effect - Wikipedia

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    An example of a high frequency character in Chinese is the character for family (家) which appears before many other characters. [3] These effects were moderated by the predictability of the next words as well as the predictability of the target word given the previous word. [ 14 ]

  6. Habit - Wikipedia

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    Good Habits Poster. A habit (or wont, as a humorous and formal term) is a routine of behavior that is repeated regularly and tends to occur subconsciously. [1]A 1903 paper in the American Journal of Psychology defined a "habit, from the standpoint of psychology, [as] a more or less fixed way of thinking, willing, or feeling acquired through previous repetition of a mental experience."

  7. Range–frequency theory - Wikipedia

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    The range–frequency compromise in judgment is a theory in cognitive psychology developed by Allen Parducci in the mid-1960s. Range–frequency is descriptive of how judgments reflect a compromise between a range principle that assigns each category to an equal subrange of contextual stimuli and a frequency principle that assigns each of the categories to the same number of contextual stimuli.

  8. Repetition compulsion - Wikipedia

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    Repetition compulsion is the unconscious tendency of a person to repeat a traumatic event or its circumstances. This may take the form of symbolically or literally re-enacting the event, or putting oneself in situations where the event is likely to occur again.

  9. Von Restorff effect - Wikipedia

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    Based on this assumption, an isolation effect would not be expected if the isolated item were presented prior to some consistent context, a theory that goes against von Restorff's findings. [ 3 ] Empirical data has shown a strong relationship between the von Restorff effect and measures of event-related potential in the brain.