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  2. Social trap - Wikipedia

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    The missing hero trap is a perfect representation of a social fence. An example is the Schelling's anecdote of a mattress that falls from a vehicle on a two lane highway. [6] Motorists tend to back up in a traffic jam behind the mattress, waiting for a break in the oncoming traffic to pass around the mattress.

  3. List of psychological effects - Wikipedia

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    Psychology portal; A list of 'effects' that have been noticed in the field of psychology. [clarification needed] Ambiguity effect; Assembly bonus effect; Audience effect;

  4. Context effect - Wikipedia

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    "THE CAT" is a classic example of context effect. We have little trouble reading "H" and "A" in their appropriate contexts, even though they take on the same form in each word. A context effect is an aspect of cognitive psychology that describes the influence of environmental factors on one's perception of a stimulus. [1]

  5. Recreational fishing - Wikipedia

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    When fishing from a sea-going boat, groundbait known as "chum" is commonly used to attract fish. Brown Trout. In North America, popular freshwater fish include trout, bass, pike, catfish, walleye and muskellunge. The smallest fish are called panfish, because they can fit whole in a normal cooking pan, examples being perch and sunfish ...

  6. List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia

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    Greater likelihood of recalling recent, nearby, or otherwise immediately available examples, and the imputation of importance to those examples over others. Bizarreness effect: Bizarre material is better remembered than common material. Boundary extension: Remembering the background of an image as being larger or more expansive than the ...

  7. Glossary of fishery terms - Wikipedia

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    For example, if management results in more fishing income, it is important to know how the income is distributed between small and large boats or part-time and full-time fishermen. Spawning – the production or depositing of large quantities of eggs in water. Species – a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile ...

  8. Psychological adaptation - Wikipedia

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    Evolutionary psychology proposes that the human psychology consists primarily of psychological adaptations, [2] which is opposed by the tabula rasa or blank slate model of human psychology. Early behaviourists, like B.F. Skinner , tended to the blank slate model and argued that innate behaviors and instincts were few, some behaviourists ...

  9. Sadfishing - Wikipedia

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    Sadfishing can be caused by many things, the main reason being that someone doesn't get enough attention, and/or has low self-respect.This is proven by the fact that people sadfishing are looking for compliments: very close to narcissistic behaviour, but with desire for compliments from other people for self-satisfaction.