Michael McDonough
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Michael McDonough was a media team intern at Encyclopaedia Britannica in 2022. He is expected to graduate in 2023 from Northwestern University and is studying journalism, statistics, and psychology. A life-long learner, he seeks to use different types of media as a tool to share the joy of learning.
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Heuristic, in cognitive psychology, a process of intuitive judgment, operating under conditions of uncertainty, that rapidly produces a generally adequate, though not ideal or optimal, decision, solution, prediction, or inference. Heuristics function as mental shortcuts that produce serviceable…
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