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Cognitive Psychology: Attention · Learning · Memory · Motivation · Perception · Thinking

False beliefs are beliefs that people have which have no basis in reality. Such beliefs are thought to arise as a consequence of cognitive processes such as a failure of cognitive discrimination or the process of cognitive generalization

v·d·e Cognitive processes
Cognition	Awareness ·</span> Cognitive dissonance · Comprehension · Consciousness · Imagination · Intuition
Perception	Amodal perception · Color perception · Depth perception · Visual perception · Form perception · Haptic perception · Speech perception · Perception as Interpretation · Numeric Value of Perception · Pitch perception · Harmonic perception · Social perception
Memory	Encoding · Storage · Recall · Memory consolidation
Other	Attention · Higher nervous activity · Intention · Learning (Memory) · Mental fatigue · Set (psychology) · Thinking · Volition

False beliefs