The illusions of sight and sound
The tricks of memory and time
The biases in how we judge others and ourselves
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Master of What your brain hides from you
007skaty Millions of people share vivid memories of historical events that never happened.
007skaty The Stopped Clock Illusion
Glance at the clock and the second hand stops (and it stops!) / Your brain rewrites time when the next second drops (when it drops!)
007skaty Cognitive scientists use schema-driven memory reconstruction to explain why people falsely remember Nelson Mandela dying in prison in
007skaty A holographic brain infographic displays neon peaks and ends against a dark background
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Memory reconstruction: Every time you recall a memory, your brain reconstructs it from scratch, meaning you are actually remembering the last time you thought about it.
In Elizabeth Loftus's 1995 memory study, what false event were participants convinced had happened?
How does misleading information presented after an event affect an eyewitness's memory?
According to the peak-end rule, which two moments determine how we evaluate a past event?
What occurs when a person mistakenly believes they generated a creative idea that was actually someone else's?
What is the term for remembering a fact but forgetting where or how you learned it?
Which psychological effect states that people remember uncompleted or interrupted tasks better than completed ones?
What cognitive feature makes repeated statements seem more truthful to our brains?