Encyclopedia Development
Your personal tool for organizing concepts and mechanisms from development and psychology. We skip academic formulas in favor of clear definitions, cognitive biases, and self-reflection questions that help you name your states precisely.
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Choice architecture
Choice architecture is a way of organizing options that influences the decisions people make.
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Clarity
Clarity is a state in which the goal, criteria, problem or message are clear enough to act on.
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Clarity of criteria
Criterion clarity is the definition by which we evaluate the selection, progress, quality or completion of an activity.
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Clarity of values
Clarity of values is recognizing what is really important and how it should be expressed in everyday choices.
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Cognitive barriers
Cognitive barriers are obstacles to understanding, learning, or making decisions that result from limitations in attention, beliefs, patterns, and thinking…
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Cognitive bias
Cognitive bias is a systematic deviation in thinking that affects the evaluation of information, decisions and the interpretation of reality.
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Cognitive biases
Cognitive biases are systematic shortcuts and distortions in thinking that influence the evaluation of information, people, and decisions.
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Cognitive buffer
The cognitive buffer is a resource of attention, knowledge, strategy and flexibility of thinking that helps maintain the quality of…
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Cognitive closure
Cognitive closure is the need for a quick, clear answer and an end to cognitive uncertainty.
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Cognitive coaching
Cognitive coaching involves supporting change by organizing thinking, questions, beliefs and ways of interpreting situations.
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Cognitive ease
Cognitive ease is the subjective feeling that information is simple, familiar and easy to process.
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Cognitive economy
Cognitive economy is the tendency of the mind to reduce effort through simplification, mental shortcuts and automation of decisions.
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Cognitive minimalism
Cognitive minimalism is the conscious reduction of unnecessary stimuli, decisions and information in order to regain clarity of attention.
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Confirmation bias
Confirmation bias is the tendency to seek, remember, and interpret information to support prior beliefs.
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Convergent thinking
Convergent thinking is narrowing down multiple possibilities to the most accurate, useful or criteria-compliant solution.
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Critical thinking
Critical thinking is the careful evaluation of information, arguments and conclusions according to clear criteria and evidence.
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Critical thinking
Critical thinking is the careful, purposeful evaluation of information, arguments and conclusions according to clear criteria.
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Data collection
Data collection is the systematic collection of information needed to understand a situation, make a decision, or test a hypothesis.
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Decision funnel
A decision funnel is an orderly process of moving from many possible options to a single decision or short list…
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Decision horizon
The decision horizon is the range of time, consequences and data that we take into account when making decisions.
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Decision scenarios
Decision scenarios are possible futures used to prepare decisions, responses and contingency plans.
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Deferred gratification
Delayed gratification is the ability to give up an immediate reward for a larger or more important benefit in the…
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Deliberation
Deliberation is the conscious consideration of options, arguments, and consequences before making a decision.
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