Cognitive Biases Quiz

What is the cognitive bias where people are overreliant on the first piece of information they hear?

• Anchoring Bias

• Availability Heuristic

• Confirmation Bias

• Outcome Bias

Which cognitive bias involves overestimating the importance of information that is available to us?

• Bandwagon Effect

• Zero-risk Bias

• Selective Perception

• Availability Heuristic

What is the bias where failing to recognize your cognitive biases is a bias in itself?

• Information Bias

• Blind-spot Bias

• Survivorship Bias

• Choice Supportive Bias

Which bias involves feeling positive about a choice even if it has flaws?

• Choice Supportive Bias

• Pro-innovation Bias

• Placebo Effect

• Clustering Illusion

What is the tendency to see patterns in random events known as?

• Confirmation Bias

• Clustering Illusion

• Salience

• Recency Effect

Which bias involves judging a decision based on the outcome rather than the decision-making process?

• Outcome Bias

• Overconfidence Effect

• Placebo Effect

• Recency Effect

What is the bias where some individuals are too confident about their abilities?

• Pro-innovation Bias

• Salience

• Overconfidence Effect

• Recency Effect

Which bias involves focusing on the most easily recognizable features of a person or concept?

• Selective Perception

• Stereotyping

• Zero-risk Bias

• Salience

What is the bias where we expect a group or person to have certain qualities without real information?

• Survivorship Bias

• Zero-risk Bias

• Stereotyping

• Anchoring Bias

Which bias involves focusing only on surviving examples, leading to misjudgment of a situation?

• Placebo Effect

• Ostrich Effect

• Survivorship Bias

• Zero-risk Bias