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 Although you may notice your air conditioner turning on, you no longer "hear" it running after a few minutes. Which of the following processes probably accounts for this change?


Definitions:

Mental Laziness

A state where an individual avoids mentally challenging tasks, preferring comfort over cognitive effort.

Theory Perseverance Effect

The phenomenon where beliefs persist even after the evidence supporting them has been discredited or debunked.

Thinking About Thinking

The process of reflecting on one's own thought patterns, beliefs, and cognitive processes; also known as metacognition.

Correspondence Bias

The tendency to draw inferences about a person's unique and enduring dispositions from behaviors that can be entirely explained by the situations in which they occur.

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