................... is the tendency to judge the strength of arguments based on the plausibility of their conclusion rather than how strongly they support that conclusion.

The .................... is a cognitive bias that causes people to avoid information that they perceive as potentially unpleasant. For example, this can cause someone to avoid looking at their bills, because they're worried about seeing how far behind they are on their payments.

................ is any systematic difference from the truth that arises in the collection, recall, recording and handling of information in a study, including how missing data is dealt with.

.................. refers to how a person's perception is affected by selective factors in their attention. This bias may explain an individual's failure to consider alternative possibilities when occupied with an existing train of thought.

In social identity theory, an implicit bias or implicit stereotype, is the pre-reflective attribution of particular qualities by an individual to a member of some social out group.

.................. is a flaw of the human mind where we find patterns in random information when no pattern exists. Our brain has been designed to identify patterns to make better decisions.

….........……… a bias in human information processing, which refers to the tendency to revise one's belief insufficiently when presented with new evidence.

…………..... is a mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a given person's mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method or decision. It operates on the notion that if something can be recalled, it must be important, or at least more important than alternative solutions which are not as readily recalled.

...................... is the process by which individuals perceive what they want to in media messages while ignoring opposing viewpoints. It is a broad term to identify the behavior all people exhibit to tend to "see things" based on their particular frame of reference.

......................... is the tendency for people to think that they have more control than apparent over events. It's like wearing a rabbit's foot to an exam or believing you're safer driving than being a passenger.

It is the phenomenon whereby we assume that because people are good at doing A they will be good at doing B, C and D (or the reverse—because they are bad at doing A they will be bad at doing B, C and D).

...................... is a cognitive bias whereby people with limited knowledge or competence in a given intellectual or social domain greatly overestimate their own knowledge or competence in that domain relative to objective criteria or to the performance of their peers or of people in general.

Imagine you went on a beautiful hike and along the trail you encountered a rattlesnake. What do you think you will remember more vividly about the hike: the snake you encountered or the beautiful scenery along the way? Most people will remember the rattlesnake incident better, because these experiences tend to affect them much more than positive ones. This phenomenon is an example of ...............

Ignoring an obvious (negative) situation.