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  2. Study skills - Wikipedia

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    Students often make their own flashcards, or more detailed index cards – cards designed for filing, often A5 size, on which short summaries are written. Being discrete and separate, they have the advantage of allowing students to re-order them, pick a selection to read over, or choose randomly for self-testing. Software equivalents can be used.

  3. Rational choice model - Wikipedia

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    Consistent Preferences: The rational choice model assumes that preferences will remain consistent, in order to maximize personal utility based on available information; Best course of action: The simple rational choice model assumes that individuals are capable of calculating the best course of action and that they always intend to do so.

  4. Higher-order thinking - Wikipedia

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    Higher-order thinking, also known as higher order thinking skills (HOTS), [1] is a concept applied in relation to education reform and based on learning taxonomies (such as American psychologist Benjamin Bloom's taxonomy). The idea is that some types of learning require more cognitive processing than others, but also have more generalized benefits.

  5. List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia

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    The fact that one more easily recall information one has read by rewriting it instead of rereading it. [183] Frequent testing of material that has been committed to memory improves memory recall. Tip of the tongue phenomenon When a subject is able to recall parts of an item, or related information, but is frustratingly unable to recall the ...

  6. Blissful ignorance effect - Wikipedia

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    In order to achieve this, information vagueness possibly increases content and acceptance of that decision by concealing the full picture and justifying the decision made. [ 2 ] In an experiment to test the blissful ignorance effect, two groups were created and told information about a product.

  7. Ellsberg paradox - Wikipedia

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    There have been various attempts to provide decision-theoretic explanations of Ellsberg's observation. Since the probabilistic information available to the decision-maker is incomplete, these attempts sometimes focus on quantifying the non-probabilistic ambiguity that the decision-maker faces – see Knightian uncertainty.

  8. The psychology of food aversions: Why some people don't grow ...

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    "The important thing to keep in mind is whether that food aversion is impacting your quality of life," she says. "If it's just a few preferences but someone eats other foods in that food group, it ...

  9. Epistemic motivation - Wikipedia

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    Thus, groups populated by individuals with high openness to experience, high need for cognition, or low ambiguity aversion can be expected to have higher average epistemic motivation and, therefore, to engage in more, rather than less, systematic and deliberate information search and processing, leading to higher creativity and innovation. [4]