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During adolescence,when the brain undergoes a natural pruning of synapses,schizophrenic brains aggressively prune away too many synapses.
Fundamental Attribution Error
The tendency to underestimate situational influences and overestimate personal traits as causes of others' behaviors.
Personal Factors
Individual attributes such as personality, beliefs, and experiences that influence one's behavior and perceptions.
Peter Principle
A theory suggesting that people are promoted to their level of incompetence in a hierarchical organization.
Primacy Effect
The tendency to remember and give greater importance to information that is encountered first in a sequence.
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