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Von Restorff Effect
The Von Restorff effect is the tendency to remember items that stand out from their surroundings more than items that blend in.
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How our memory can be systematically distorted
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The Von Restorff effect is the tendency to remember items that stand out from their surroundings more than items that blend in.
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The positivity effect is the tendency, especially in older adults, to remember and focus more on positive than negative information.
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The Google effect is the tendency to forget information that we know can be easily looked up online, while remembering how to access it.
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Nostalgia bias is the tendency to view the past, especially one's own past, with longing and affection, often idealizing it while ignoring negative aspects.
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Rosy retrospection is the psychological phenomenon of people sometimes judging the past disproportionately more positively than they judge the present.
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The telescoping effect is a temporal displacement of an event whereby people perceive recent events as being more remote than they are and distant events as being more recent than they are.
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Remembering our past beliefs as more similar to current ones.
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Incorporating misleading information into memory.
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False memory refers to the phenomenon of confidently recalling events that did not happen or remembering them differently from how they occurred.
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Cryptomnesia is the phenomenon of mistakenly believing that a remembered idea is original, forgetting that it came from someone else.
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Source confusion is the tendency to remember information while misattributing where it came from, blending memories of different sources or contexts.
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The misinformation effect occurs when a person’s memory of an event is altered by post-event information, such as leading questions or misleading details.
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Inattentional blindness is the failure to notice a visible but unexpected object or event because attention is focused elsewhere.
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Change blindness is the failure to notice large changes in a visual scene when they occur during a brief disruption or distraction.
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Attentional bias is the tendency for our attention to be drawn more strongly to certain types of stimuli—such as threats, rewards, or concerns—shaping what we notice, think about, and remember.
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Selective perception is the tendency to notice, interpret, and remember information that fits our expectations or goals while overlooking or downplaying conflicting information.
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Choice-supportive bias is the tendency to remember our past choices as better than they were and to exaggerate the positives of chosen options while downplaying their negatives.
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Hindsight bias is the tendency to see past events as having been more predictable than they actually were, believing "I knew it all along" after the outcome is known.
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