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

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

A Priori

ability

about predictiveness

abstract

accept/acceptability

accomodation

accurate/accuracy

action

actor

Actor-Observer difference

actuarial prediction

adaptive value

adduce

Affirming the consequent

alternative

ambiguous

amenable

analyze/analysis

Anchoring effect

anecdotal evidence

An example of rational questioning

appeal

applicability

(Hidden) Assumptions

argument

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

clinical

cognition

cognitive bias

coherence

co-incide/co-incidence

Cold Reading

Common cause fallacy

comparative method

comparison/compare

competent/competence

concept

conclusion

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 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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