This is a learning method that improves recall and typically done with flashcards. This is based on the idea of a 'forgetting curve' - the rate at which we forget new information over time. If we are exposed to the information again at the main points of the forgetting curve, we will not forget it.
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Social identity is the part of a person's self-concept that is made from their membership in a social group.
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All people have some bad movements. Social media outrage is generally driven by a collective memory of just those bad movements.
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Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.
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Religious thinking is embedded in our cognitive process - its a mode of knowing.
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This is a phenomena in statistics. If one sample collected is at an extreme, the next sample will generally be moderate.
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We tend to believe that large events have large causes. This might be true in many instances, but not always.
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We tend to see events as stories - with logical chains of cause and effect. We underestimate the role of randomness in the final outcome. We are meaning making machines - so we tend to assign meaning to things when actually it might be just random.
Published on Jan 01, 2023