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  2. Naturalistic fallacy - Wikipedia

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    The term naturalistic fallacy is sometimes used to label the problematic inference of an ought from an is (the is–ought problem). [3] Michael Ridge relevantly elaborates that "[t]he intuitive idea is that evaluative conclusions require at least one evaluative premise—purely factual premises about the naturalistic features of things do not entail or even support evaluative conclusions."

  3. Testing effect - Wikipedia

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    First, only the question is displayed. Then the answer is displayed too, for verification. The testing effect (also known as retrieval practice, active recall, practice testing, or test-enhanced learning) [1] [2] [3] suggests long-term memory is increased when part of the learning period is devoted to retrieving information from memory. [4]

  4. List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia

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    Overconfidence effect, a tendency to have excessive confidence in one's own answers to questions. For example, for certain types of questions, answers that people rate as "99% certain" turn out to be wrong 40% of the time. [5] [43] [44] [45] Planning fallacy, the tendency for people to underestimate the time it will take them to complete a ...

  5. Double-barreled question - Wikipedia

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    An example in practice has been cited in the case of Weise v. Rainville (1959) 173 CA2d 496, 506, where the objection to such a question was sustained because such a question "raises the danger that the witness does not intend to reply to both questions" when answering "yes" to the compound question. [10]

  6. Psychology of reasoning - Wikipedia

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    It overlaps with psychology, philosophy, linguistics, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, logic, and probability theory. Psychological experiments on how humans and other animals reason have been carried out for over 100 years. An enduring question is whether or not people have the capacity to be rational.

  7. Well-being - Wikipedia

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    The terms quality of life, good life, welfare, prudential value, personal good, and individual utility are often used interchangably with well-being. [14] Similarly, the words pleasure and happiness are employed in overlapping ways with well-being, although their precise meanings differ in technical contexts like philosophy and psychology ...

  8. Funny Dog ‘Checks to Make Sure Mom’s Gone’ Before Busting ...

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    Big sister literally checked to make sure mom was really gone then checked out the camera before she started working on freeing the pup! This cracked me up!

  9. Convergent thinking - Wikipedia

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    Convergent thinking is the type of thinking that focuses on coming up with the single, well-established answer to a problem. [1] It is oriented toward deriving the single best, or most often correct answer to a question.