
Cognitive Biases
Authored by John Robinson
Social Studies
11th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
the tendency to search for, interpret, favour and recall information in a way that confirms or supports your existing beliefs or values.
Functional fixedness
Anchoring bias
Confirmation bias
Attentional bias
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
a cognitive bias involving the tendency to regard objects as only having one function or as only working in a specific way.
Self serving bias
Functional fixedness
Dunning-Kruger effect
Anchoring bias
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
a cognitive bias in which the impression we form about one quality of a person influences our beliefs and expectations about that person’s other qualities
Optimism bias
Self-serving bias
Attentional bias
Halo effect
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
a cognitive bias in which information that is received after an event interferes with a person’s original memory of the event
Actor-observer bias
Dunning-Kruger effect
Misinformation effect
Anchoring bias
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
our tendency to overestimate our chances of experiencing positive events and underestimate our chances of experiencing negative events
Optimism bias
Halo effect
Anchoring bias
Confirmation bias
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
the tendency to blame external forces when bad events happen to us and to give ourselves the credit when positive events happen to us
Actor-observer bias
Self-serving bias
Confirmation bias
Anchoring bias
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
a cognitive bias in which people with low competency in a certain area overestimate their skills, while people with high competency underestimate their skills
Dunning-Kruger effect
Halo effect
False-consensus bias
Confirmation bias
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