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  2. Repetition compulsion - Wikipedia

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    Repetition compulsion is the unconscious tendency of a person to repeat a traumatic event or its circumstances. This may take the form of symbolically or literally re-enacting the event, or putting oneself in situations where the event is likely to occur again.

  3. Frequency illusion - Wikipedia

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    The frequency illusion (also known as the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon) is a cognitive bias in which a person notices a specific concept, word, or product more frequently after recently becoming aware of it. The name "Baader–Meinhof phenomenon" was coined in 1994 by Terry Mullen in a letter to the St. Paul Pioneer Press. [1]

  4. List of idioms of improbability - Wikipedia

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    Never's [Day]") is sometimes used, although some people may prefer the profane Του Αγίου Πούτσου ανήμερα ("right on the Day of St. Dick's"). One might also say that an unlikely event will happen "on the 32nd of the month".

  5. How frequently are people saying 'please'? Not very often ...

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    The study found that kids said please 10% of the time when they asked adults for something, while adults used the word in 8% of requests to children and 6% of the time that they asked something of ...

  6. Polypharmacy - Wikipedia

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    Many older people living in long term care facilities experience polypharmacy, and under-prescribing of potentially indicated medicines and use of high risk medicines can also occur. [38] Medicine use rises from 6.0 ± 3.8 regular medicines on average when people enter long term care to 8.9 ± 4.1 regular medicines after two years. [40]

  7. Logorrhea (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    However, the patient did use an overabundance of speech in responding to the clinician, as most people would simply respond, "I use a comb to comb my hair." In a more extreme version of logorrhea aphasia , a clinician asked a male patient, also with Wernicke's aphasia, what brought him to the hospital.

  8. Palilalia - Wikipedia

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    Palilalia is defined as the repetition of the speaker's words or phrases, often for a varying number of repeats. Repeated units are generally whole sections of words and are larger than a syllable, with words being repeated the most often, followed by phrases, and then syllables or sounds.

  9. Human multitasking - Wikipedia

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    When people attempt to complete many tasks at one time, “or [alternate] rapidly between them, errors go way up, and it takes far longer—often double the time or more—to get the jobs done than if they were done sequentially,” states Meyer. [2] This is largely because "the brain is compelled to restart and refocus". [15]