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  2. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Wikipedia

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    John Wynne published An Abridgment of Mr. Locke's Essay concerning the Human Understanding, with Locke's approval, in 1696. Likewise, Louisa Capper wrote An Abridgment of Locke's Essay concerning the Human Understanding, published in 1811. Some European philosophers saw the book's impact on psychology as comparable to Isaac Newton's impact upon ...

  3. Dunbar's number - Wikipedia

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    Dunbar's number has become of interest in anthropology, evolutionary psychology, [12] statistics, and business management.For example, developers of social software are interested in it, as they need to know the size of social networks their software needs to take into account; and in the modern military, operational psychologists seek such data to support or refute policies related to ...

  4. 1,4,6-Androstatriene-3,17-dione - Wikipedia

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    ATD has many names in sports supplements including: 1,4,6 etiollochan-dione, 3, 17-keto-etiochol-triene, androst-1,4,6-triene-3,17-dione and many others. These all refer to CAS# 633-35-2. ATD may cause a positive test for the anabolic steroid Boldenone, of which it is a possible metabolite and production contaminant. ATD is also prohibited in ...

  5. Human Thought Has a Speed Limit and Scientists Just Found It

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    Another question that arises when considering this mental speed limit is why the brain chooses to focus on just one thought at a time, rather than processing multiple ideas at the same time ...

  6. Mental chronometry - Wikipedia

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    Mental chronometry is one of the core methodological paradigms of human experimental, cognitive, and differential psychology, but is also commonly analyzed in psychophysiology, cognitive neuroscience, and behavioral neuroscience to help elucidate the biological mechanisms underlying perception, attention, and decision-making in humans and other ...

  7. Bounded rationality - Wikipedia

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    Huw Dixon later argued that it may not be necessary to analyze in detail the process of reasoning underlying bounded rationality. [17] If we believe that agents will choose an action that gets them close to the optimum, then we can use the notion of epsilon-optimization , which means we choose our actions so that the payoff is within epsilon of ...

  8. The Missing Shade of Blue - Wikipedia

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    [1] The Missing Shade of Blue. The problem of the missing shade of blue arises because just two paragraphs later Hume seems to provide just such an idea. He says: There is, however, one contradictory phenomenon, which may prove, that it is not absolutely impossible for ideas to arise, independent of their correspondent impressions.

  9. Human intelligence - Wikipedia

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    In psychology, human intelligence is commonly assessed by IQ scores that are determined by IQ tests. In general, higher IQ scores are associated with better outcomes in life. [ 11 ] However, while IQ test scores show a high degree of inter-test reliability , and predict certain forms of achievement effectively, their construct validity as a ...