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Bizarreness Effect - The memory phenomenon where bizarre, unusual, or strange material is better remembered than common material, especially when mixed with ordinary information.
Confabulation - The production of fabricated, distorted, or misinterpreted memories without the conscious intention to deceive.
Cross-Race Effect - The tendency to more easily recognize faces of one's own racial group compared to faces of other racial groups.
Cryptomnesia - A memory bias where a person mistakenly believes a thought or idea is their own original creation, when it was actually previously encountered and forgotten.
Fading Affect Bias - The psychological phenomenon where emotional intensity associated with negative memories fades faster than that of positive memories over time.
Generation Effect - A memory phenomenon where information is better remembered if it is actively generated rather than passively read.
Google Effect - The tendency to forget information that can be easily found online, treating the internet as an external memory source.
Leveling and Sharpening - A memory distortion process where details are lost through simplification while certain elements become exaggerated over time.
Misinformation Effect - A memory phenomenon where exposure to misleading information after an event alters a person's memory of that event.
Next-in-Line Effect - A memory phenomenon where people have reduced recall for what someone says immediately before their own turn to speak, due to anxiety and rehearsal focus.
Nostalgia Effect - The tendency to prefer past choices, experiences, or products based on nostalgic feelings rather than objective evaluation.
Picture Superiority Effect - The phenomenon where pictures and images are more likely to be remembered than words alone, giving visual information privileged access to memory.
Primacy Effect - The cognitive tendency to better remember and give more weight to information presented at the beginning of a sequence.
Priming - A cognitive phenomenon where exposure to one stimulus influences the response to a subsequent stimulus, often without conscious awareness.
Recency Effect - The tendency to better remember and give greater weight to the most recently presented items or information in a sequence.
Serial Position Effect - The tendency to better recall items at the beginning (primacy) and end (recency) of a sequence while having poorer recall of items in the middle.
Source Confusion - The tendency to misattribute the origin of a memory, confusing where, when, or from whom information was originally learned.
Suggestibility - The tendency to accept and incorporate information, ideas, or suggestions from others into one's own memory, beliefs, or behavior.
Telescoping Effect - Cognitive bias where recent events seem more distant and distant events seem more recent than they actually are.
Von Restorff Effect - A memory bias where distinctive or unusual items in a group are better remembered than common items, due to their isolation from surrounding elements.

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