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  2. Scale error - Wikipedia

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    Some children were also prompted to engage in play behavior with the objects. After several minutes, the large objects were replaced with smaller versions of the same object. In several cases, regardless of prompting, the child attempted to interact with the small object in the same way they would have interacted with the large object.

  3. Conscience - Wikipedia

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    It binds since one has subjective certainty that one is correct. The act resulting from acting on the invincibly erroneous conscience is not good in itself, yet this deformed act or material sin against God's right order and the objective norm is not imputed to the person. The formal obedience given to such a judgment of conscience is good.

  4. List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia

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    Automation bias, the tendency to depend excessively on automated systems which can lead to erroneous automated information overriding correct decisions. [54] Gender bias, a widespread [55] set of implicit biases that discriminate against a gender. For example, the assumption that women are less suited to jobs requiring high intellectual ability.

  5. Scrupulosity - Wikipedia

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    Scrupulosity is the pathological guilt and anxiety about moral issues. Although it can affect nonreligious people, it is usually related to religious beliefs. It is personally distressing, dysfunctional, and often accompanied by significant impairment in social functioning.

  6. Your Erroneous Zones - Wikipedia

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    Your Erroneous Zones is the first self-help book written by Wayne Dyer and first issued by Funk & Wagnalls publishers in April 1976. [ 1 ] It is one of the best-selling books of all time , with an estimated 100 million copies sold. [ 2 ]

  7. Category mistake - Wikipedia

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    The term "category-mistake" was introduced by Gilbert Ryle in his book The Concept of Mind (1949) to remove what he argued to be a confusion over the nature of mind born from Cartesian metaphysics. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Ryle argues that it is a mistake to treat the mind as an object made of an immaterial substance because predications of substance are ...

  8. Overconfidence effect - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] Overconfidence is one example of a miscalibration of subjective probabilities. Throughout the research literature, overconfidence has been defined in three distinct ways: (1) overestimation of one's actual performance; (2) overplacement of one's performance relative to others; and (3) overprecision in expressing unwarranted certainty in ...

  9. Attribution bias - Wikipedia

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    The children who played the violent video game were more likely to say that their peer harmed someone on purpose than the participants who played the nonviolent game. This finding provided evidence that exposure to violence and aggression could cause children to develop a short-term hostile attribution bias.