Cognitive Biases Flashcard

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What is the bandwagon effect?

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a psychological phenomenon where people adopt certain behaviors, styles, or attitudes simply because others are doing so

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What is the anchoring/focusing effect?

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Tendency to over-focus on one snippet of information

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What is stereotyping?

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simplified or generalized idea about a particular group or category of people

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What is confirmation bias?

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The tendency to listen more often to information that confirms our beliefs

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What is the false consensus effect?

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The tendency people have to overestimate how much other people agree with their own beliefs

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What is the halo effect?

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The tendency for an initial impression of a person to influence what we think of them overall

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Optimism bias

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Tendency to overestimate the likelihood that good things will happen to us

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What is the fundamental attribution error?

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Tendency for people to over-emphasize personality-based explanations for behaviors

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Dunning Kruger effect

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When you know only a little about a topic, you tend to think you know a lot