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Paradox illusions (or impossible object illusions) are generated by objects that are paradoxical or impossible, such as the Penrose triangle or impossible staircase seen, for example, in M. C. Escher's Ascending and Descending and Waterfall. The triangle is an illusion dependent on a cognitive misunderstanding that adjacent edges must join.
The introspection illusion is a cognitive bias in which people wrongly think they have direct insight into the origins of their mental states, while treating others' introspections as unreliable. The illusion has been examined in psychological experiments, and suggested as a basis for biases in how people compare themselves to others.
An auditory illusion is an illusion of hearing, the auditory equivalent of a visual illusion: the listener hears either sounds which are not present in the stimulus, or "impossible" sounds. In short, audio illusions highlight areas where the human ear and brain, as organic, makeshift tools, differ from perfect audio receptors (for better or for ...
Often used to refer to linguistic phenomena; the illusion that a word or language usage that one has noticed only recently is an innovation when it is, in fact, long-established (see also frequency illusion). Also recency bias is a cognitive bias that favors recent events over historic ones.
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]
Cognitive Illusions: A Handbook on Fallacies and Biases in Thinking, Judgement and Memory. East Sussex: Psychology Press. ISBN 978-1-84169-351-4. Myers, David G. (1980). The Inflated Self: Human Illusions and the Biblical Call to Hope. New York, NY: Seabury Press. ISBN 978-0816404599. Sedikides, Constantine; Gregg, Aiden P. (2007).
A cognitive bias is a systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment. [1] ... (e.g., illusion of asymmetric insight, self-serving bias).
The illusion of explanatory depth (IOED) is cognitive bias or an illusion where people tend to believe they understand a topic better than they actually do. [1] [2] [3] The term was coined by Yale researchers Leonid Rozenblit and Frank Keil in 2002.