Cognitive Biases

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Suggestibility – a form of misattribution where ideas suggested by a questioner are mistaken for memory.

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Telescoping effect – the effect that recent events appear to have occurred more remotely and remote events appear to have occurred more recently.

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False memory – confusion of imagination with memory, or the confusion of true memories with false memories.

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Hindsight bias – filtering memory of past events through present knowledge, so that those events look more predictable than they actually were; also known as the "I-knew-it-all-along effect."

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Reminiscence bump – the effect that people tend to recall more personal events from adolescence and early adulthood than from other lifetime periods.

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Rosy retrospection – the tendency to rate past events more positively than they had actually rated them when the event occurred.

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Self-serving bias – perceiving oneself responsible for desirable outcomes but not responsible for undesirable ones.

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Egocentric bias – recalling the past in a self-serving manner, e.g. remembering one's exam grades as being better than they were, or remembering a caught fish as being bigger than it was.

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Cryptomnesia – a form of misattribution where a memory is mistaken for imagination.

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Consistency bias – incorrectly remembering one's past attitudes and behavior as resembling present attitudes and behavior.