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  2. Persistence (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    These findings have, therefore, been applied to the clinical field, providing a foundation for the development of psychiatric techniques designed to increase persistent tendencies such as motivation, perseverance and discipline, which some individuals may have difficulty with. Researchers investigated two types of action for improving persistence:

  3. List of linguistic example sentences - Wikipedia

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    Punctuation can be used to introduce ambiguity or misunderstandings where none needed to exist. One well known example, [17] for comedic effect, is from A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (ignoring the punctuation provides the alternate reading).

  4. Perseveration - Wikipedia

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    Perseveration is a common feature of frontal lobe syndrome, as well as neurodegenerative diseases such as progressive supranuclear palsy, corticobasal syndrome and chronic acetogenin poisoning. [8] Perseveration may also refer to the obsessive and highly selective interests of individuals on the autism spectrum.

  5. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    Woman is the singular form of the word for an adult human female. Women is the plural form. Non-standard : USADA is the national anti-doping partner of the Olympics, and Rousey spent much of her childhood training to compete in the Games, eventually becoming the first American women to medal in judo with her 2008 bronze medal campaign in Beijing.

  6. Intrusive thought - Wikipedia

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    Even with this being the case, middle adults are still better at coping with intrusive thoughts than early adults, although processing an intrusive thought takes middle adults longer. [37] Older adults tend to see the intrusive thought more as a cognitive failure rather than a moral failure in opposition to young adults. [ 38 ]

  7. Palinopsia - Wikipedia

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    Palinopsia (Greek: palin for "again" and opsia for "seeing") is the persistent recurrence of a visual image after the stimulus has been removed. [1] Palinopsia is not a diagnosis; it is a diverse group of pathological visual symptoms with a wide variety of causes. Visual perseveration is synonymous with palinopsia. [dubious – discuss]

  8. Dysthymia - Wikipedia

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    Dysthymia (/ d ɪ s ˈ θ aɪ m i ə / dihs-THIY-mee-uh), also known as persistent depressive disorder (PDD), [3] is a mental and behavioral disorder, [5] specifically a disorder primarily of mood, consisting of similar cognitive and physical problems as major depressive disorder, but with longer-lasting symptoms.

  9. Belief perseverance - Wikipedia

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    In a separate study, mathematically capable teenagers and adults were given seven arithmetical problems and asked to estimate approximate solutions using manual estimating. Then, using a calculator rigged to provide increasingly erroneous figures, they were asked for accurate answers (e.g., yielding 252 × 1.2 = 452.4, when it is actually 302.4).