Cognition Review

• Overconfidence Bias

• availability heuristic

• Insight

• Hindsight Bias

When people overestimate the importance of information that is available to them because they are using a mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a given person's mind when evaluating a specific concept or topic

• anchoring bias

• availability heuristic

• bandwagon effect

• blindspot bias

______________ are shortcuts and incomplete simplified strategies that we use that does not guarantee a solution.

• Algorithms

• Heuristics

• Confirmation Bias

• Prospect Theory

Using heuristics could lead to _________________ ______________.

• All of your problems

• All wrong answers

• Cognitive Biases

• Mental Set

______________ _________ is the tendency to seek out information that confirms pre-existing beliefs.

• Framing Effect

• Confirmation Bias

• Selective Attention

• Congruence Bias

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

• Confirmation Bias

• Representative Heuristic

• Insight

• Hindsight Bias

The tendency people have to be more confident in their own abilities.

• Herd Mentality

• Confirmation Bias

• Overconfidence

• Hedonic Effect

Which cognitive bias involves viewing past events as more predictable than they actually were?

• Hindsight bias
• Availability bias
• Anchoring bias
• Confirmation bias

Stephanie and Nik were such a cute couple. When they broke up, a neighbor was shocked at first, but a day later commented that he always knew their relationship wouldn’t last. The neighbor’s comment most likely illustrates

• a placebo effect

• hindsight bias

• correlational evidence

• illusory correlation

When Tom and Alice were dating, he learned that she liked to receive flowers after they had a fight. Years, later, Tom dates another woman and after having a fight, he stops by the florist to order a bouquet of flowers. Tom is likely affected by which cognitive occurrence.

• confirmation bias

• mental set

• availiability heuristic

• representative heuristic