IB Psych Cognitive Bias

The first thing you judge influences your judgment of all that follows.

• Anchoring bias

• Negative bias

• Focusing effect bias

• Confirmation bias

You favor things that confirm your existing beliefs.

• Anchoring bias

• Negative Bias

• Focusing Effect Bias

• Confirmation bias

You allow negative things to disproportionately influence your thinking.

• Anchoring bias

• Negative bias

• Focusing Effect bias

• Confirmation bias

Cognitive bias is...

• Errors in our thinking when trying to learn, interpret and process new information

• Completely avoidable if you pick the right sources

• Something others have but you don't

• A tool we use to make sure we are always thinking correctly about new information

Searching "Why was Satchel Paige the greatest baseball player of all time?" is an example of:

• Confirmation Bias

• Anchoring bias

• Focusing effect bias

• Negative bias

When you cling to previously learned information, despite new information or nuance, you are practicing...

• Anchoring Bias

• Negative Bias

• Focusing effect bias

• Confirmation Bias

What is a good way to combat confirmation bias?

• Not believing something just because it's popular

• eing open to information that suggests you may have made the wrong choice

• Reading information that disproves what you believe.

• Digging into statistics about the frequency a topic or event happens

 

Each of the following statements is an example of confirmation bias EXCEPT...

• Interpreting information to support your existing beliefs

• Only remembering details that uphold your beliefs

• Ignoring information that challenges your beliefs

• Seeking information that challenges your beliefs

You are doing research on a new electric car that you are interested in buying.  You only visit the car company’s website and an online message board of electric car enthusiasts to do your research.  This strategy may lead to …

• Confirmation Bias

• Negative bias

• Focusing effect bias

• Anchoring bias

A rise in income has only a small and transient effect on happiness and well-being, but people consistently overestimate this effect. What bias is this related to?

• Negative bias

• Anchoring bias

• Focusing effect bias

• Confirmation bias