Cognition Review

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availability heuristic

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When people overestimate the importance of information that is available to them because they are using a mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a given person's mind when evaluating a specific concept or topic

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availability heuristic

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______________ are shortcuts and incomplete simplified strategies that we use that does not guarantee a solution.

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Heuristics

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Using heuristics could lead to _________________ ______________.

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Cognitive Biases

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______________ _________ is the tendency to seek out information that confirms pre-existing beliefs.

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Confirmation Bias

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Searching "Why was Satchel Paige the greatest baseball player of all time?" is an example of: Confirmation Bias, Representative Heuristic, Insight, Hindsight Bias

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Confirmation Bias

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The tendency people have to be more confident in their own abilities.

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Overconfidence

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Which cognitive bias involves viewing past events as more predictable than they actually were?

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Hindsight bias

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When a neighbor commented that he always knew Stephanie and Nik's relationship wouldn’t last, this most likely illustrates

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hindsight bias

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When Tom and Alice were dating, he learned that she liked to receive flowers after they had a fight. Years later, Tom dates another woman and after having a fight, he stops by the florist to order a bouquet of flowers. Tom is likely affected by which cognitive occurrence?

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mental set