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  2. Selective perception - Wikipedia

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    Selective perception may refer to any number of cognitive biases in psychology related to the way expectations affect perception.Human judgment and decision making is distorted by an array of cognitive, perceptual and motivational biases, and people tend not to recognise their own bias, though they tend to easily recognise (and even overestimate) the operation of bias in human judgment by ...

  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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    Occurs when someone who does something good gives themselves permission to be less good in the future. Non-adaptive choice switching After experiencing a bad outcome with a decision problem, the tendency to avoid the choice previously made when faced with the same decision problem again, even though the choice was optimal.

  5. Perception - Wikipedia

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    The following process connects a person's concepts and expectations (or knowledge) with restorative and selective mechanisms, such as attention, that influence perception. Perception depends on complex functions of the nervous system, but subjectively seems mostly effortless because this processing happens outside conscious awareness. [3]

  6. Broadbent's filter model of attention - Wikipedia

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    Due to this limited capacity, a selective filter is needed for information processing. Broadbent stated that all stimuli are processed initially for basic physical properties. These basic characteristics can include pitch, color, loudness, and direction. [3]

  7. Attribution (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    Fritz Heider discovered Attribution theory during a time when psychologists were furthering research on personality, social psychology, and human motivation. [5] Heider worked alone in his research, but stated that he wished for Attribution theory not to be attributed to him because many different ideas and people were involved in the process. [5]

  8. Selective exposure theory - Wikipedia

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    Selective exposure occurs when individuals search for information and show systematic preferences towards ideas that are consistent, rather than inconsistent, with their beliefs. [10] On the contrary, those who exhibited low levels of confidence were more inclined to examine information that did not agree with their views.

  9. Perceptual learning - Wikipedia

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    When people are less knowledgeable about different races and cultures people develop stereotypes because they are less knowledgeable. Perceptual learning is a more in-depth relationship between experience and perception. Different perceptions of the same sensory input may arise in individuals with different experiences or training.