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  2. Dual process theory - Wikipedia

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    In psychology, a dual process theory provides an account of how thought can arise in two different ways, or as a result of two different processes. Often, the two processes consist of an implicit (automatic), unconscious process and an explicit (controlled), conscious process. Verbalized explicit processes or attitudes and actions may change ...

  3. Conflation - Wikipedia

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    But conflation of these two different concepts leads to the notion that all ideological ideas should be treated with respect, rather than just the right to hold these ideas. Conflation in logical terms is very similar to equivocation. [citation needed] Deliberate idiom conflation is the amalgamation of two different expressions. In most cases ...

  4. Psychology of reasoning - Wikipedia

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    There are more sophisticated judgment strategies that result in fewer errors. People often reason based on availability but sometimes they look for other, more accurate, information to make judgments. [32] This suggests there are two ways of thinking, known as the Dual-Process Model. [33]

  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. [182] 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. Thought - Wikipedia

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    For example, thinking after an accident that one would be dead if one had not used the seatbelt is a form of counterfactual thinking: it assumes, contrary to the facts, that one had not used the seatbelt and tries to assess the result of this state of affairs. [137]

  7. Metonymy - Wikipedia

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    In metaphor, this substitution is based on some specific analogy between two things, whereas in metonymy the substitution is based on some understood association or contiguity. [7] [8] American literary theorist Kenneth Burke considers metonymy as one of four "master tropes": metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony.

  8. Outline of thought - Wikipedia

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    A thinking chimpanzee. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to thought (thinking): Thought (also called thinking) – mental process in which beings form psychological associations and models of the world. Thinking is manipulating information, as when we form concepts, engage in problem solving, reason and make ...

  9. Tautology (language) - Wikipedia

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    Much Old Testament poetry is based on parallelism: the same thing said twice, but in slightly different ways (Fowler describes this as pleonasm). [1] However, modern biblical study emphasizes that there are subtle distinctions and developments between the two lines, such that they are usually not truly the "same thing".