Overview and description of ZAPs (61), sorted by title
2-4-6 Task		The effect of the confirmation bias in inductive reasoning
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Ames room		Visual illusion where distance and position seem different than they are.
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Attentional Blink		Processing information takes time
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Balance Scale task		Development of problem solving skills
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Big Five		Personality described in five factors
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Bipolar disorder		Understanding bipolar disorder.
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Brown-Peterson task		The influence of time and interference on forgetting information
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Classical conditioning		For all organisms, conditioning is a basic type of learning
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Cognitive Dissonance		What causes an unpleasant situation and how can this be solved?
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Concept Formation		The way concepts are acquired
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Conservation		Piaget's stages of cognitive development.
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Decision making		In what way are the decisions you make determined by outside influences.
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Depth of Processing		The level of processing influences memory
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Dichotic listening task		Are you able to attend to two auditory messages at the same time?
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Dissociative Identity Disorder		Understanding Dissociative Identity Disorder.
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Dual-coding theory		Are words and figures represented differently in your mind?
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Emotional Stroop		How fear of, for example, spiders causes an attentional bias and may interfere with simpe tasks.
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Encoding specificity		The importance of the context in which information is learned
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False Memory		Is your memory as reliable as seems?
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Fan effect		Is knowing more always better?
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Feature net		A model for recognizing letters and words
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Gate Control Theory		Why do we feel pain, which sorts of pain are there, and how can pain be reduced?
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Genetics		The process of inheritance and especially the inheritance of hereditary diseases
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Gestalt problem solving		Problem solving with insight
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Iconic Memory		How much can you see at a single glance?
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Implicit learning		Unconscious learning of a complex rule
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Lateral Inhibition		Using two visual illusions, the Hermann Grid and Mach Bands, lateral inhibition is explained.
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Lexical Decision Task		The construction and mechanics of our 'mental lexicon'
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Memory Bias		How mood influences our memory
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Memory Span		The capacity of the short-term memory
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Mental Rotation, 2-D		Rotating an image in your mind
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Mental Rotation, 3-D		Rotating a three-dimensional image in your mind
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Mental Scanning		The mental processing and representation of images and distance
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Misconceptions		Naïve Physics and its influence on problem solving.
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Missionaries and cannibals		Different strategies for solving a problem
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Moral development		Kohlberg's theory of stages of moral development
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Object-based attention		Are we able to lock on our attention to a specific object?
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Obsessive compulsive disorder		How the checking of actions, ment to get confidence, causes doubt.
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Operation Span		How much can our Working Memory hold?
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Ponzo illusion		A visual illusion: two lines appear to be equal in length, but are they?
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Prisoner's dilemma		The relation between personal gains and the good of all
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Recalling information		Does anything ever disappear from memory?
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Recognizing Emotion		What emotions are easier to recognize than others?
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Selection procedure		IQ-test, used during selection procedures
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Selective attention		Attention is selective, sometimes. Why?
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Sentence Verification		Why are features of concepts sometimes hard to identify
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Serial Position		The influence of position in a list on remembering.
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Signal Detection Theory		The correct or incorrect detection of a signal
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Signal detection Theory 2		The relation between hits, false alarms, misses and correct rejections in the form of a graph.
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Simon effect		Influence of physical location of information
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Spatial Cueing		Visual attention
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Split brain		The independent behavior of the left and right part of the brain
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Stereotypes		How can there be a difference between your explicit opinion and your implicit reactions?
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Sternberg Search		Searching information in short-term memory
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Stroop Effect		The difference between automated and controlled processes
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Syllogisms		Reasoning with syllogisms
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Synaptic Transmission		The communcation between nerve cells
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Visual Search		How long does it takes to seek and find information
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Wason Selection Task		Are you able to reason logically?
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Word frequency		The effect of word frequency on your performance.
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Word superiority effect		The automatic process of recognizing and interpreting words
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