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Apophenia - The tendency to perceive meaningful connections, patterns, or causation between unrelated things.
Attentional Bias - The tendency to pay more attention to emotionally dominant stimuli in one's environment while neglecting other relevant information.
Cocktail Party Effect - The brain's ability to focus auditory attention on a specific stimulus while filtering out other stimuli, like following one conversation in a noisy room.
Contrast Effect - The cognitive bias where the perception of something is enhanced or diminished by comparison to a recently observed contrasting stimulus.
Cross-Race Effect - The tendency to more easily recognize faces of one's own racial group compared to faces of other racial groups.
Defensive Attribution - A cognitive bias where people assign more blame to a harm-doer as the outcome's severity increases, and less blame when they identify with the victim.
Frequency Illusion - A cognitive bias where something you've recently noticed suddenly seems to appear with improbable frequency afterward.
Leveling and Sharpening - A memory distortion process where details are lost through simplification while certain elements become exaggerated over time.
Salience Bias - The tendency to focus on and give disproportionate weight to information that is prominent, emotionally striking, or easily noticeable.
Selective Perception - The tendency to filter information based on expectations, beliefs, and prior experiences, perceiving what we expect or want to perceive while filtering out contradictory information.
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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