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Cognitive psychology sketches

Explore sketches, drawings, and illustrations that simplify ideas related to Cognitive psychology. Discover the frameworks, principles, and tips I've sketched to make Cognitive psychology topics easy to understand and share.

Gestalt principles of visual perception showing proximity, similarity, continuity, closure, figure and ground, symmetry and order, and common fate.

Gestalt principles

The isolation effect: remembering better what stands out from a set of otherwise like items in a set. Also known as the Von Restorff effect

The isolation effect

Confirmation bias: people dressed in blue buy the blue newspapers at a newsstand while some reds are buying the red papers.

Confirmation bias

Hope: CR Synder's model for hope illustrated by a climber looking at The Ogre mountain considering the goals, pathways, and willpower that gives them hope they can climb it

Proportionality Bias illustration: a dice has landed on a six and the person who rolled it gave it a really good shake beforehand.

Proportionality bias

The Availability Heuristic illustration: Plane crashes, cold snaps, and winning lottery tickets are shown as examples of uncommon but widely reported events that might affect the significance we associate with them.

The availability heuristic (and bias)

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