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What is the difference between affect and feeling?
According to constructionists (e.g., Russell & Barrett, 1999), affect (or "core affect") is a composite of valence and arousal, which underlies all emotional experience. So when I feel good and ...
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Term for when the more you invest yourself in something, the less you agree to drop it
Not certain this is what you are thinking about, but this sounds a lot like the idea of "sunk costs", which is a form of loss aversion.
Sunk costs means that you tend to overvalue the effort you have ...
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What is the name of the "Things are more visible once you learn about them" phenomenon?
The scenario you describe is sometimes called the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon.
Baader-Meinhof is the phenomenon where one stumbles upon some obscure
piece of information—often an unfamiliar word or ...
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Is there an audio equivalent of eidetic memory?
I have been doing some research and this is what I found so far.
First, the memory of sounds is called echoic memory (Alley Dog; Echoic Memory Definition) and is a form of sensory memory. This means ...
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What are the meanings of the word 'gender'?
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics the following is stated:
Sex is a biological construct, what is real:
Attributes that characterize biological maleness and femaleness including:
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What is the term of having a high perceived confidence while having limited knowledge?
I think you are referring to the Dunning-Kruger Effect. It describes the relationship between experience one has in a particular topic and his/her confidence about being an expert.
Dunning and ...
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What is a phobia against babies or kids called?
A rather cursory search brought me to the wikipedia page for fear of children:
Pedophobia:
[The] fear of children, fear of infants or fear of childhood [..].
This as opposed to a pathological ...
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Is "gaslighting" a mainstream concept in the cognitive sciences?
The wikipedia article you linked to regarding the term Gaslighting has references to clinical and research literature.
Dorpat, (1996) talks about the incidences of Gaslighting conducted by therapists....
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Does psychology have a name for emotions that a person can feel but cannot name?
The term used for recognizing emotions is affect labeling (also know as emotions labelling). The act of labelling an emotion requires similar cognitive mechanisms used for labelling a cat or a dog (...
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How to measure the correlation between "spirituality" and the susceptibility to false memories?
Maybe what you are looking for is the field cognitive science of religion:
Cognitive science of religion is the study of religious thought and behavior from the perspective of the cognitive and ...
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Is there a neutral term for people who tend to avoid face-to-face or video/audio communication?
I agree with @AlwaysConfused that this sounds very like someone with Asperger's.
However, if you want a more "neutral" term, would Introvert help?
Such a person - an ...
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Wisdom of crowds vs group polarization
Great question.
Wisdom of crowds happens when participants are motivated to find a "correct" answer. The classic example is counting jelly beans in a jar - where the average of guesses ...
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What's the term in psychology for the way people think of concepts using examples?
You are talking about Prototype Theory:
... any given concept in any given language has a real world example
that best represents this concept. For example: when asked to give an
example of the ...
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Term for using hyperbole to make a softer argument seem more palatable?
There are several cognitive biases which describe why people are often more likely to accept a position after being presented with an unreasonable position.
Focalism
Focalism or anchoring is the ...
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What do you call sensations without stimuli?
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Visual hallucinations and, more specifically, phosphenes are the terms you are probably after.
Background
I'll basically provide a list of terminologies below, as your question seems to ...
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Name of the bias towards not seeing small harm of many as important?
Yes. This is a special case of the identifiable victim effect: the cognitive bias implicated in the quote, "A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic."
The identifiable victim ...
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What's the technical name for this cognitive bias?
I am not entirely sure about the proper scientific names but I think your issue revolves around buying things because they are
cheap;
hard to find.
The first is a notorious reason to buy stuff; the ...
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What's the technical name for this cognitive bias?
Not sure what you describe is a cognitive bias in itself, but I suspect the scarcity heuristic may be part of the purchaser's rationalization. (See the wikipedia article for academic references.)
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Word for naming your negative self-talk to overcome it
What you are talking about is the powerful technique of Compartmentalisation. As highlighted in the Wikipedia link I provided here, normally speaking (emphasis mine)
Compartmentalization is a ...
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What's a simple definition for reactive attachment disorder?
The beginnings of theories based on attachment regarding long and short term interpersonal relationships is Attachment Theory which was started by John Bowlby. Attachment Theory is primarily applied ...
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Experiments demonstrating irreligious people spontaneously developing superstitious rituals?
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In accordance with @ArnonWeinberg's comment, I think superstition is the term you are after.
Background
Superstition (e.g., Skinner (1948)) is:
[A]ny belief or practice that is ...
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Opposite of White Bear principle?
Short answer
Over-thinking
Background
Unconscious recall of information can be more effective than conscious recall of that same information. Disruption of the activity of the dorsolateral prefrontal ...
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Is "haptodysphoria" an urban legend or is there another term under which this studied?
Apparently "sensory over-responsivity" is a more widely used term:
Sensory over-responsivity, a subtype of sensory modulation disorder, is characterized by extreme negative reactions to normative ...
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Is there a term for simulated irrationality?
I don't think there's an official term for this kind of bluffing specifically, that's widely used. But Nixon's approach to the Soviet Union, to act in an exaggerated irrational manner to deter them ...
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What is the name of the cognitive bias where an expert overestimates the knowledge of others?
Reminds me of (one side of) the Dunning–Kruger effect, where "people of high ability incorrectly assume that tasks that are easy for them are also easy for other people."
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What is the term for when too many choices results in inability to decide?
Overchoice or "choice overload" are the common used terms for
describing the cognitive process in which people have a difficult time making a decision when faced with many options (Wikipedia on ...
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Is there a less colloquial term for the phenomenon known as "brain zaps"?
Short answer
Brain zaps are a colloquial term for certain symptoms of antidepressant discontinuation syndrome.
Background
'Brain zaps' are associated with sudden shakes, or vibrations, tremors, ...
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How many diagnosable mental disorders are included in the DSM?
I have not come up with a definitive answer myself as there is a wide range of figures online.
Michael Noll-Hussong states on ResearchGate
The total number of specific diagnoses was reduced from ...
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Is there a specific term for false justifications?
Dereistic Thinking: Failure to take the facts of reality into account, so that thoughts derived mainly from fantasy rather than experience and logical inference."
Dereism
Mental activity that ...
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