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Cognitive Biases

Authored by John Robinson

Social Studies

11th Grade

15 Questions

Cognitive Biases
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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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