Unconscious Biases

...................... is the tendency to search for, interpret, focus on and remember information that aligns with our preconceived opinions.

• Confirmation bias

• Attribution bias

• Horns effect

• Dunning-Kruger effect

................... is the tendency to judge the strength of arguments based on the plausibility of their conclusion rather than how strongly they support that conclusion.

• Confirmation bias

• Negativity bias

• Belief bias

• Dunning-Kruger effect

The .................... is a cognitive bias that causes people to avoid information that they perceive as potentially unpleasant. For example, this can cause someone to avoid looking at their bills, because they're worried about seeing how far behind they are on their payments.

• Dunning-Kruger effect

• Negativity bias

• Belief bias

• Ostrich effect

................ is any systematic difference from the truth that arises in the collection, recall, recording and handling of information in a study, including how missing data is dealt with.

• Dunning-Kruger effect

• Information bias

• Attentional bias

• Ostrich effect

.................. refers to how a person's perception is affected by selective factors in their attention. This bias may explain an individual's failure to consider alternative possibilities when occupied with an existing train of thought.

• Attentional bias

• Information bias

• Clustering illusion

• Dunning-Kruger effect

In social identity theory, an implicit bias or implicit stereotype, is the pre-reflective attribution of particular qualities by an individual to a member of some social out group.

• Information bias

• Dunning-Kruger effect

• Attentional bias

• Stereotypical bias

.................. is a flaw of the human mind where we find patterns in random information when no pattern exists. Our brain has been designed to identify patterns to make better decisions.

• Selective perception

• Availability bias

• Conservatism bias

• Clustering illusion

….........……… a bias in human information processing, which refers to the tendency to revise one's belief insufficiently when presented with new evidence.

• Availability bias

• Conservatism bias

• Illusion of control bias

• Halo effect

…………..... is a mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a given person's mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method or decision. It operates on the notion that if something can be recalled, it must be important, or at least more important than alternative solutions which are not as readily recalled.

• Illusion of control bias

• Selective perception

• Information bias

• Availability bias

...................... is the process by which individuals perceive what they want to in media messages while ignoring opposing viewpoints. It is a broad term to identify the behavior all people exhibit to tend to "see things" based on their particular frame of reference.

• Dunning-Kruger effect

• Selective perception

• Information bias

• Illusion of control bias