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Glossary of selected Judgement and Decision-making, Belief-related, and other Psychology terms A-Z

Mar 30, 2008

Glossary of selected Judgement and Decision-making, Belief-related, and other Psychology terms A-C

A Priori
ability
about cognitive bias
about predictiveness
abstract
accept/acceptability
accomodation
accurate/accuracy
action
actor
Actor-Observer difference
actuarial prediction
ad hoc
adaptive value
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adduce
Affirming the consequent
allegory
alternative
alternative hypothesis
ambiguous
amenable
An example of rational questioning
analogy
analyze/analysis
Anchoring effect
anecdotal evidence
appeal
applicability
argument
argument stopper
assert»assertion
assimilation bias
(Hidden) Assumptions
attention
attitude
attitudinal gradation
attribute
attribution
Availability
Availability heuristic
awareness
axiom
background
background information
background knowledge
Baruch Spinoza
Base rate fallacy
basic questions
behaviour
belief
Belief and disbelief see: Type 1 and Type 2 errors
belief bias
Belief perserverance
bias
Blunting
Bolstering
burden of proof
burnout (rational)
Bystander effect
Calibration of judgement
category
causation
cause
chance
characteristics
claim
Clairvoyant test
clarity of thinking
clinical
clustering illusion
cognition
cognitive bias
cognitive bias, about
cognitive illusion
coherence
co-incide/co-incidence
Cold Reading
Common cause fallacy
comparative method
comparison/compare
competent/competence
concept
(conceptual) models
conclusion
concrete
conditional proposition
configuration
confirmation
Confirmation bias
conformity
confound/confounding
Conjunction fallacy
conscious
consensus
consequence
conservatism (scientific)
consideration
consistent/consistency
conspiratorial or conspiracist thinking (paranoid conspiracy theories)
content
Context
Contiguity
contingency
Contrast effect
control
control group
controversies
Convergence
Conversational maxims
correctness
correlation/co-variation
corroborate
counterfactual reasoning
Co-variation
Creationism
’Creation-science’
credentials
credibility
Creeping determinism
Criteria for adequacy of dimensions of a decision problem
Criterion
critical
critical thinking
Cryptomnesia
cue

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Glossary of selected Judgement and Decision-making, Belief-related, and other Psychology terms D-H