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  2. List of psychological effects - Wikipedia

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    A list of 'effects' that have been noticed in the field of psychology. ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; ...

  3. Wikipedia:Contents/Human activities - Wikipedia

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    Examples include all fields of engineering. Formal science – branch of knowledge with many subbranches which are concerned with formal systems. Unlike other sciences, the formal sciences are not concerned with the validity of theories based on observations in the real world, but instead with the properties of formal systems based on ...

  4. Social influence - Wikipedia

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    Social Influence is strongest when the group perpetrating it is consistent and committed. Even a single instance of dissent can greatly wane the strength of an influence. For example, in Milgram's first set of obedience experiments, 65% of participants complied with fake authority figures to administer "maximum shocks" to a confederate. In ...

  5. Context effect - Wikipedia

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    "THE CAT" is a classic example of context effect. We have little trouble reading "H" and "A" in their appropriate contexts, even though they take on the same form in each word. A context effect is an aspect of cognitive psychology that describes the influence of environmental factors on one's perception of a stimulus. [1]

  6. Influence - Wikipedia

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    Sphere of influence (astrodynamics), the region around a celestial body in which it is the primary gravitational influence on orbiting objects Sphere of influence (black hole) , a region around a black hole in which the gravity of the black hole dominates that of the host galaxy's bulge

  7. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...

  8. Dependent and independent variables - Wikipedia

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    For example, in a study examining the effect of post-secondary education on lifetime earnings, some extraneous variables might be gender, ethnicity, social class, genetics, intelligence, age, and so forth. A variable is extraneous only when it can be assumed (or shown) to influence the dependent variable.

  9. Hierarchy of Influences - Wikipedia

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    Hierarchy of influences model has been employed as theoretical framework to explain different levels of influences on media content. Researchers have studied professionalism, journalistic roles, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] cross-national comparative journalistic roles, [ 5 ] comparative media studies, and understanding news production to name a few of closely ...