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1. Perceptual constancy:
BIO 100 Psuedoscience Answer the tendency of animals and humans to see familiar objects as having standard shape, size, color, or location regardless of changes in the angle of perspective, distance, or lighting. The impression tends to conform to the object as it is or is assumed to be, rather than to the actual stimulus.
2. Pareidoila:
Answer finding meaningful patterns when none exists
3. Cryptomensia:
Answer a type of misattribution that occurs when a person thinks he or she has come up with a new idea, yet has only retrieved a stored idea and failed to attribute the idea to its proper source
4. Selective Memory:
Answer The extent to which people's attitudes bias recall and recog- nition of attitude-relevant information.
5. Subjective validation:
Answer (Also called Forer Effect). The tendency to pick out a specific, accurate meaning from an open-ended, vague personality description.
6. confirmation bias:
Answer a tendency to search for information that supports our pre- conceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence
7. availability error:
Answer when one pays attention to, or is compelled by, the readily available evidence - the evidence that is obvious, memorable, or psychologically compelling - instead of taking into account all the evidence or the reliable evidence.
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