Mental shortcut

Synonyms for "mental shortcut" (13 found)

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Closest matches (3)

Noun(3 words)
biasbias the resultscognitive bias

Strong matches (4)

Noun(4 words)
cognitive shortcutheuristicheuristic biasheuristic reasoning

Related words (6)

Noun(5 words)
heuristic ruleheuristicsintuitionquick guessrule of thumb
Adjective(1 words)
most heuristic

Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

3 entries
cognitive processmental processpsychological mechanism

More specific

11 entries
anchoring biasavailability biasavailability heuristicconfirmation biasfirst impressionhalo effectrecognition heuristicrepresentativeness biasrepresentativeness heuristicsnap judgmentstereotype activation

Collocations

6 entries
availability heuristiccognitive shortcuthalo effectrepresentativeness heuristicrule of thumbsnap judgment

Inflections

1 entries
mental shortcuts

Derivations

1 entries
mental shortcutting