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.

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Answer all questions below and test your knowledge.

  1. 1

    What is the term for the tendency to overestimate the importance of dispositional factors and underestimate the impact of situational factors on behavior?

    Question 1
  2. 2

    Which cognitive bias involves the tendency to seek out information that confirms our pre-existing beliefs or expectations?

    Question 2
  3. 3

    The availability heuristic is a mental shortcut that relies on:

    Question 3
  4. 4

    What is the term for the phenomenon where people tend to believe, after an event has occurred, that they would have predicted it?

    Question 4
  5. 5

    The representativeness heuristic is used when people judge the likelihood of an event based on:

    Question 5
  6. 6

    Which of the following is an example of the anchoring bias?

    Question 6
  7. 7

    The term 'cognitive miser' refers to the tendency for people to:

    Question 7
  8. 8

    Which cognitive bias is characterized by the tendency to judge the likelihood of an event based on how easily examples come to mind?

    Question 8

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