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  2. Psychological refractory period - Wikipedia

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    Performance was tested under 2 active doses and 1 placebo dose of caffeine in combination with 1 active dose and 1 placebo dose of alcohol. [6] Results indicated that alcohol impaired PRP performance for both speed and accuracy, and the combination of caffeine and alcohol impaired PRP performance for accuracy but not speed.

  3. Mental chronometry - Wikipedia

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    Mental chronometry is one of the core methodological paradigms of human experimental, cognitive, and differential psychology, but is also commonly analyzed in psychophysiology, cognitive neuroscience, and behavioral neuroscience to help elucidate the biological mechanisms underlying perception, attention, and decision-making in humans and other ...

  4. Cognitive disengagement syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Their typically shy nature and slow response time has often been misinterpreted as aloofness or disinterest by others. In social group interactions, those with CDS may be ignored and neglected. People with classic ADHD are more likely to be rejected in these situations because of their social intrusiveness or aggressive behavior.

  5. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing - Wikipedia

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    Many proposals of EMDR efficacy share an assumption that, as Shapiro posited, when a traumatic or very negative event occurs, information processing of the experience in memory may be incomplete. The trauma causes a disruption of normal adaptive information processing, which results in unprocessed information being dysfunctionally held in ...

  6. List of effects - Wikipedia

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    Mozart effect (education psychology) (popular psychology) (psychological theories) (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) Mpemba effect (phase changes) (physical paradoxes) (thermodynamics) Mullins effect (rubber properties) Multiple-effect humidification (drinking water) (water supply) (water treatment) Munroe effect (explosive weapons) (explosives)

  7. Time perception - Wikipedia

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    The first proposed explanation, called the "motion extrapolation" hypothesis, is that the visual system extrapolates the position of moving objects but not flashing objects when accounting for neural delays (i.e., the lag time between the retinal image and the observer's perception of the flashing object). The second proposed explanation by ...

  8. Autosuggestion - Wikipedia

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    Émile Coué identified two very different types of self-suggestion: . intentional, "reflective autosuggestion": made by deliberate and conscious effort, andunintentional, "spontaneous auto-suggestion": which is a "natural phenomenon of our mental life … which takes place without conscious effort [and has its effect] with an intensity proportional to the keenness of [our] attention".

  9. Ideomotor phenomenon - Wikipedia

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    In order that I may do full justice to two esteemed friends, I beg to state, in connection with this term monoideo-dynamics, that, several years ago, Dr. W. B. Carpenter introduced the term ideo-motor to characterise the reflex or automatic muscular motions which arise merely from ideas associated with motion existing in the mind, without any ...