Cognitive Biases and Heuristics
Assess your understanding of the mental processes that shape our perceptions and judgments, and learn about the common pitfalls in human thinking.
Quiz Questions
Answer all questions below and test your knowledge.
- 1
What is the term for the tendency to overestimate the importance of dispositional factors and underestimate the impact of situational factors on behavior?
- 2
Which cognitive bias involves the tendency to seek out information that confirms our pre-existing beliefs or expectations?
- 3
The availability heuristic is a mental shortcut that relies on:
- 4
What is the term for the phenomenon where people tend to believe, after an event has occurred, that they would have predicted it?
- 5
The representativeness heuristic is used when people judge the likelihood of an event based on:
- 6
Which of the following is an example of the anchoring bias?
- 7
The term 'cognitive miser' refers to the tendency for people to:
- 8
Which cognitive bias is characterized by the tendency to judge the likelihood of an event based on how easily examples come to mind?
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