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Psychology

5 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Psychology.

  • Cognitive Load — Mental effort.
  • Cognitive Reframing — Deliberately substituting the interpretive lens applied to a fixed situation so that emotional and behavioral responses re-couple to a more adaptive frame.
  • Curse Of Knowledge — Holding knowledge systematically degrades an agent's ability to simulate the perspective of an agent who lacks it.
  • Flow State — Enter an absorbed, intrinsically rewarding activity state when challenge matches skill and goals and feedback are clear, causing action and awareness to merge, self-monitoring to recede, and time perception to distort.
  • Stereotype Threat — The situational performance drop that occurs when a negative group stereotype is made salient in an evaluative setting, consuming the working-memory capacity the task itself requires.