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  2. Analysis paralysis - Wikipedia

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    Analysis paralysis is a critical problem in athletics. It can be explained in simple terms as "failure to react in response to overthought". A victim of sporting analysis paralysis will frequently think in complicated terms of "what to do next" while contemplating the variety of possibilities, and in doing so exhausts the available time in which to act.

  3. Mind-wandering - Wikipedia

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    About 60% of the time after a target word a thought probe will appear to gauge whether thoughts were on task. If participants were not engaged in the task they were experiencing task-unrelated thoughts (TUTs), signifying mind-wandering. [4] [23] [volume needed] [page needed] Another task to judge TUTs is the experience sampling method (ESM).

  4. Dual process theory - Wikipedia

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    The test is designed as a measure of a person's logical thinking ability. [50] Performance on the Wason Selection Task is sensitive to the content and context with which it is presented. If you introduce a negative component into the conditional statement of the Wason Selection Task, e.g.

  5. Foresight (futures studies) - Wikipedia

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    futures (forecasting, forward thinking, prospectives), planning (strategic analysis, priority setting), and; networking (participatory, dialogic) tools and orientations. Much futurology research has been rather ivory tower work, but Foresight programmes were designed to influence policy - often R&D policy. Much technology policy had been very ...

  6. Thinking, Fast and Slow - Wikipedia

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    Thinking, Fast and Slow is a 2011 popular science book by psychologist Daniel Kahneman. The book's main thesis is a differentiation between two modes of thought : "System 1" is fast, instinctive and emotional ; "System 2" is slower, more deliberative , and more logical .

  7. Counterfactual thinking - Wikipedia

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    The counterfactual thoughts for silver medalists tend to focus on how close they are to the gold medal, displaying upward counterfactual thinking, whereas bronze medalists tend to counterfactually think about how they could have not received a medal at all, displaying downward counterfactual thinking. [48] Another example is the satisfaction of ...

  8. Forward chaining - Wikipedia

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    Forward chaining (or forward reasoning) is one of the two main methods of reasoning when using an inference engine and can be described logically as repeated application of modus ponens. Forward chaining is a popular implementation strategy for expert systems, business and production rule systems. The opposite of forward chaining is backward ...

  9. Postformal thought - Wikipedia

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    First, universalistic formal thinking holds the assumption that there are indeed a number of stable truths and that there is order in the universe. This order can be described formally and abstractly. Second, relativistic thinking rejects that idea that there is a single universal order and instead posits that there can be multiple orders ...