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  2. Short-term memory - Wikipedia

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    The idea of separate memories for short-term and long-term storage originated in the 19th century. [2] A model of memory developed in the 1960s assumed that all memories are formed in one store and transfer to others store after a small period of time.

  3. Delayed gratification - Wikipedia

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    When provided a choice between a small, short delay reward, and a large, long delay reward, there is an impulsive preference for the former. Additionally, as the delay time for the small/short and large/long reward increases, there is a shift in preference toward the larger, delayed reward. [53]

  4. To be announced - Wikipedia

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    In program guide listings, both paper and electronic, the term indicates that the program to be aired by a television station or channel will be announced in the near future, a last-second decision to remove a program or film where the content to be aired in its place cannot be updated on short notice by the listings provider, or that a program ...

  5. Hyperbolic discounting - Wikipedia

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    Given two similar rewards, humans show a preference for one that arrives in a more prompt timeframe. Humans are said to discount the value of the later reward, by a factor that increases with the length of the delay. In the financial world, this process is normally modeled in the form of exponential discounting, a time-consistent model of ...

  6. Later synonym - Wikipedia

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    Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Later_synonym&oldid=384326813"This page was last edited on 12 September 2010, at 03:49 (UTC). (UTC).

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  8. Suspended animation in fiction - Wikipedia

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    He is later thawed out by Josh and Parker, the show's protagonists. In the TV series The 100 , during season 5, a group of prisoners is awakened from cryopreservation after over 100 years. They had been in suspended animation while Earth was temporarily uninhabitable, serving their sentences aboard a ship mining asteroids.

  9. Short-termism - Wikipedia

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    Short-termism is giving priority to immediate profit or reward, quickly executed projects and short-term results, over long term results and far-seeing action. [1] In business and politics, it can work to undermine actions where results take time to mature "... and demand immediate outlays which may not produce tangible effects within any one government's term".