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  2. Hot and cold cognition - Wikipedia

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    Hot cognition is a hypothesis on motivated reasoning in which a person's thinking is influenced by their emotional state. Put simply, hot cognition is cognition coloured by emotion. [ 1 ] Hot cognition contrasts with cold cognition , which implies cognitive processing of information that is independent of emotional involvement. [ 2 ]

  3. Hot-cold empathy gap - Wikipedia

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    A hot-cold empathy gap is a cognitive bias in which people underestimate the influences of visceral drives on their own attitudes, preferences, and behaviors. [ 1 ] [ page needed ] It is a type of empathy gap .

  4. Sexual arousal - Wikipedia

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    Other changes include an increase in heart rate as well as in blood pressure, feeling hot and flushed and perhaps experiencing tremors. [16] A sex flush may extend over the chest and upper body. If sexual stimulation continues, then sexual arousal may peak into orgasm. After orgasm, some women do not want any further stimulation and the sexual ...

  5. Testing effect - Wikipedia

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    The test format doesn't seem to impact the results as it is the process of retrieval that aids the learning [79] but transfer-appropriate processing suggests that if the encoding of information is through a format similar to the retrieval format then the test results are likely to be higher, with a mismatch causing lower results. [80]

  6. Recall test - Wikipedia

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    A cued recall test is a procedure for testing memory in which a participant is presented with cues, such as words or phrases, to aid recall of previously experienced stimuli. [1]: 182 Endel Tulving and Zena Pearlstone (1966) conducted an experiment in which they presented participants with a list of words to be remembered. The words were from ...

  7. Cathexis - Wikipedia

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    Freud defined cathexis as an allocation of libido, pointing out for example how dream thoughts were charged with different amounts of affect. [5] A cathexis or allocation of emotional charge might be positive or negative, leading some of his followers to speak of a cathexis of mortido as well. [6]

  8. Goldilocks principle - Wikipedia

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    Illustration for "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" The Goldilocks principle is named by analogy to the children's story "Goldilocks and the Three Bears", in which a young girl named Goldilocks tastes three different bowls of porridge and finds she prefers porridge that is neither too hot nor too cold but has just the right temperature. [1]

  9. Stream of consciousness (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    Early Buddhist scriptures describe the "stream of consciousness" (Pali; viññāna-sota) where it is referred to as the Mind Stream. [6] [7] [8] The practice of mindfulness, which is about being aware moment-to-moment of one's subjective conscious experience [9] aid one to directly experience the "stream of consciousness" and to gradually cultivate self-knowledge and wisdom. [6]