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Cognitive Biases Flashcards

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Hick’s Law

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More options leads to harder decisions

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Confirmation Bias

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People look for evidence that confirms what they think

Category: information

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Priming

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Previous stimuli influences users’ decisions

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Cognitive Load

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The total amount of mental effort that is required to complete a task

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Anchoring Bias

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Users rely heavily on the first piece of information they see

Category: information

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Nudge

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Subtle hints can affect users’ decisions

Category: information

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Progressive Disclosure

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Users are less overwhelmed if they’re exposed to complex features later

Category: information

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Fitts’s Law

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Large and close elements are easier to interact with

Category: information

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Banner Blindness

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Users tune out stuff they are repeatedly exposed to

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Decoy Effect

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Creating a third option that is completely inferior to the target option but only partially inferior to the competitor

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Framing

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The way information is presented affects how users make decisions

Category: information

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Attentional Bias

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Users’ thoughts filter what they pay attention to

E.g. a smoker is more attuned to cigarette ads

Category: information

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Empathy Gap

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People underestimate how much emotions influence user behaviors

Category: information

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Visual Anchors

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Elements that are used to guide users’ eyes

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Von Restorff Effect

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People notice items that stand out more

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Selective Attention

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People filter out things from their environment when in focus

Category: information

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Survivorship Bias

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People neglect things that don’t make it past a selection process

Category: information

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Juxtaposition

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Elements that are close and similar are perceived as a single unit

Category: information

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External Trigger

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When the information on what to do next is within the prompt itself

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Centre-Stage Effect

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People tend to choose the middle option in a set of items

Category: information

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Law of Proximity

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Elements close to each other are usually considered related

Category: information

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Tesler’s Law

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If you simplify too much, you’ll transfer some complexity to the users

Category: information

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Spark Effect

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Users are more likely to take action when the effort is small

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Feedback Loop

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When users take action, feedback communicates what happened

Category: information

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Expectations Bias

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People tend to be influenced by their own expectations

Category: information

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Aesthetic-Usability Effect

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People perceive designs with great aesthetics as easier to use

Category: information

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Social Proof

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Users adapt their behavior based on what others do

Category: meaning

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Scarcity

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People value thing smore when they’re in limited supply

Category: meaning

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Curiosity Gap

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Users have a desire to seek out missing information

Category: meaning

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Mental Model

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Users have a preconceived opionion of how things work

Category: meaning

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Familiarity Bias

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People prefer familiar experiences

Category: meaning

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Reciprocity

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People feel the need to reciprocate when they receive something

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Singularity Effect

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Users care disproportionately about an individual as compared to a group

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Variable Reward

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People especially enjoy unexpected rewards

Category: meaning

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Aha! moment

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When new users first realize the value of your product

Category: meaning

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Goal Gradient Effect

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Motivation increases as users get closer to their goal

Category: meaning

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Occam’s Razor

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Simple solutions are often better than more complex ones

Category: meaning

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Noble Edge Effect

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Users tend to prefer socially responsible companies

Category: meaning

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Hawthorne Effect

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Users change their behavior when they know they are being observed

Category: meaning

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Halo Effect

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People judge things (or people) based on their feelings towards one trait

Category: meaning

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Miller’s Law

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Users can only keep 7±2 items in their working memory

Category: meaning

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Unit Bias

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One unit of something feels likethe optimal amount

Category: meaning

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Flow State

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Being fully immersed and focused on a task

Category: meaning

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Authority Bias

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Users attribute more importance to the opinion of any authority figure

Category: meaning

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Pseudo-Set Framing

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Tasks that are part of a group are more tempting to complete

46
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Group Attractiveness Effect

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Individual items seem more attracive when presented in a group

Category: meaning

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Curse of Knowledge

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Not realizing that people don’t have the same level of knowledge

Category: meaning

48
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Self-Initiatied Triggers

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Users are more likely to interact with prompts they setup for themselves

Category: meaning

49
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Survey Bias

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Users tend to skew survey answers towards what’s socially acceptable

Category: meaning

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Cognitive Dissonance

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It’s painful to hold two opposing ideas in our mind

Category: meaning

51
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Feedforward

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When users know what to expect before they take an action

Category: meaning

52
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Hindsight Bias

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People overestimate their ability to predict outcomes after the fact

Category: meaning

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Law of Similarity

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Users perceive a relationship between elements that look similar

Category: meaning

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Law of Prägnanz

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Users interpret ambigous images in a simpler and more complete form

Category: meaning

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Streisand Effect

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When trying to censor information ends up increasing awareness of that information

Category: meaning

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Spotlight Effect

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People tend to believe they are being noticed more than they really are

Category: meaning

57
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Fresh Start Effect

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Users are more likely to take action if there’s a feeling of new beginnings

Category: meaning

58
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Labor Illusion

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People value things more when they see the work behind them

Category: time

59
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Default Bias

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Users tend not to change an established behavior

Category: time

60
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Investment Loops

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When suers invest themselves, they’r emore likely to come back

Category: time

61
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Loss Aversion

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People prefer to avoid losses more than earning equivalent gains

Category: time

62
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Commitment & Consistency

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Users tend to be consitent with their previous actions

Category: time

63
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Sunk Cost Effect

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Users are reluctant to pull out of something they’re invested in

Category: time

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Reactance

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Users are less likely to adop ta behavior when they feel forced

Category: time

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Law of the Instrument

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If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail

Category: time

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Tempation Bundling

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Hard tasks are less scary when coupled with something users desire

Category: time

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Dunning-Kruger Effect

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People tend to overestimate their skills when they don’t know much

Category: time

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Discoverability

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The ease with which users can discover your features

Category: time

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Second-Order Effect

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The consequences of the consequences of actions

Category: time

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Decision Fatigue

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Making a lot of decisions lowers users’ ability to make rational ones

Category: time

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Observer-Expectancy Effect

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When researchers’ biases influence the participants of an experiment

Category: time

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Weber’s Law

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Users adapt better to small incremental changes

Category: time

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Parkinson’s Law

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The time required to complete a task will take as much time as allowd

Category: time

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Affect Heuristic

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People’s current emotions cloud and influence their judgment

Category: time

75
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Hyperbolic Discounting

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People tend to prioritize immediate benefits over bigger future gains

Category: time

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Chronoception

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People’s perception of time is subjective

Category: time

77
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Cashless Effect

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People spend more when they can’t actually see the money/prices

Category: time

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Self-serving Bias

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People take credits for positive events and blame others if negative

Category: time

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Pareto Principle

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Roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes

Category: time

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Backfire Effect

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When people’s convictions are challenged, their beliefs get stronger

Category: time

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False Consensus Effect

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People overstimate how much other people agree with them

Category: time

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Bandwagon Effect

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Users tend to adopt beliefs in proportion of others who have already done so

Category: time

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Barnum-Forer Effect

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When you believe generic personality descriptions apply specifically to you

Category: time

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IKEA Effect

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When users partially create something, they value it way more

Category: time

85
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Planning Fallacy

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People tend to understimate how much time a task will take

Category: time

86
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Provide Exit Points

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Invite users to leave your app at the right moment

Category: memory

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Peak-End Rule

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People judge an experience by its peak and how it ends

Category: memory

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Sensory Appeal

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Users engage more with things appealing to multiple sense

Category: memory

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Zeigarnik Effect

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People remember incomplete tasks better than completed ones

Category: memory

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Endowment Effect

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Users value something more if they feel it’s theirs

Category: memory

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Chunking

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People remember grouped information better

Category: memory

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Delighters

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People remember more unexpected and playful pleasures

Category: memory

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Internal Trigger

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When users are prompted to take action based on memory

Category: memory

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Picture Superiority Effect

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People remember pictures better than words

Category: memory

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Method of Loci

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People remember things more when they’re associated with a location

Category: memory

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Shaping

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Incrementally reinforcing actions to get closer to a target behavior

Category: memory

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Recognition Over Recall

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It’s easier to recognize things than recall them from memory

Category: memory

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Storytelling Effect

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People remember stories better than facts alone

Category: memory

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Negativity Bias

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Users recall negative events more than positive ones

Category: memory

100
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Availability Heuristic

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Users favor recent and available information over past information

Category: memory

101
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Spacing Effect

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People learn more effectively when study sessions are spaced ou

Category: memory

102
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Serial Position Effect

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It’s easier for users to recall the first and last items of a list

Category: memory

103
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Haptic Imagery

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Imagining how something feels when you touch it

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