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121Daniel Kolak — (b. 1955 in Zagreb, Croatia) is a Croatian American philosopher who works primarily in philosophy of mind, personal identity, cognitive science, philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of logic, philosophy of religion, and… …
122World Memory Championships — The cards to be played in the competition The World Memory Championships is an organized competition of mental sports in which competitors memorize as much information as possible within a given period of time.[1] The Championship has taken place …
123Priming (psychology) — Priming is an implicit memory effect in which exposure to a stimulus influences a response to a later stimulus. It can occur following perceptual, semantic, or conceptual stimulus repetition. For example, if a person reads a list of words… …
124Metamemory — Metamemory, one component of metacognition, is about one’s memory capabilities and strategies that can aid memory, as well as the processes involved in memory self monitoring.[1] This self awareness of memory has important implications for how… …
125Cultural memory — For other approaches see Memory (disambiguation) and Culture (disambiguation) As a term, cultural memory was first introduced by the German Egyptologists Jan Assmann in his book Das kulturelle Gedächtnis , who drew further upon Maurice… …
126False allegation of child sexual abuse — A false allegation of child sexual abuse is an accusation by a child or young adolescent that a person committed one or more acts of child sexual abuse when in reality there was no perpetration of abuse by the accused person as alleged. Studies… …
127Kathy Pezdek — is Professor and Associate Dean of the School of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences (SBOS), Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. Dr. Pezdek is a cognitive psychologist specializing in the study of eyewitness memory. She… …
128Disjunctive cognition — is a common phenomenon in dreams, first identified by psychoanalyst Mark Blechner [1], in which two aspects of cognition do not match each other. The dreamer is aware of the disjunction, yet that does not prevent it from remaining. The most… …
