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6 Psych Terms you should know about

The dunning Kroger effect - you can predict how well you can perform in any situation , not good at estimating your own competence. For example, America’s got talent competitors

The Texas Sharp Shooter Fallacy- when differences in data are ignored , but the similarities are overemphasized. Due to this, a false conclusion is made

Introspection Illusions- a cognitive bias in which people wrongly believe that they have direct insight into the origins of their mental states while treating others’ introspection as unreliable

Hindsight Bias- the tendency for people to perceive past events being more predictable than they actually were (also known as the know it all along bias or creeping determinism)

The Straw Man Fallacy-when someone misinterprets an an argument to make it easier to defeat

Argument from authority- a form of an argument in which the opinion of a person on a topic is used as evidence to support an argument

 

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