Description | Answer | % Correct |
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The tendency of any treatment, even an ineffective one, to exhibit results because the recipient believes it will work | {placebo} effect | 92%
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The process by which radiation from a planet's atmosphere warms the planet's surface to a temperature above what it would be without this atmosphere | {greenhouse} effect | 67%
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Social psychological theory that states that individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim when there are other people present | {bystander} effect | 57%
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Phenomenon where a large group of people remember something differently than consensus reality agrees upon | {Mandela} effect | 48%
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The change in frequency of a wave in relation to an observer who is moving relative to the wave source | {Doppler} effect | 43%
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Cognitive bias that people with low ability overestimate their own ability, while people with high ability underestimate their own ability | {Dunning}–{Kruger} effect | 23%
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Phenomenon that occurs when an attempt to hide or censor information has the unintended consequence of increasing awareness of it | {Streisand} effect | 18%
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Snow produced when a cold air mass moves across long expanses of warmer inland bodies of water | {lake}-effect | 15%
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Psychological phenomenon wherein high expectations lead to improved performance (think My Fair Lady) | {Pygmalion} effect | 14%
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A cognitive bias in which consumers place a higher value on products they assemble themselves | {IKEA} effect | 13%
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Trope where a caregiver falls in love with his or her patient | {Florence} {Nightingale} effect | 10%
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Physical phenomenon in which an insulating vapor layer keeps a liquid hovering instead of boiling away rapidly | {Leidenfrost} effect | 9%
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