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Quick TrainerCognitive Biases and Their Definitions
Match real-world descriptions to the cognitive bias they illustrate and sharpen your grasp of how the mind misjudges.
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Common Biases
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Which bias is the tendency to search for and interpret information that confirms your existing beliefs?
Confirmation bias
Which bias describes relying too heavily on the first piece of information offered when making decisions?
Anchoring
Which bias is the 'I knew it all along' feeling after an event has already happened?
Hindsight bias
Which effect describes people with low ability overestimating their own competence?
Dunning-Kruger effect
Which effect occurs when one positive trait of a person colors your overall impression of them?
Halo effect
Which fallacy is continuing a venture because of resources already invested rather than future value?
Sunk cost fallacy
Which heuristic judges the likelihood of an event by how easily examples come to mind?
Availability heuristic
Which effect is adopting beliefs or behaviors simply because many other people do?
Bandwagon effect
Which bias gives greater weight to negative experiences than to equally positive ones?
Negativity bias
Which bias is the preference for things to stay the same rather than change?
Status quo bias
Which bias makes you credit your successes to yourself but blame failures on external factors?
Self-serving bias
Which error is attributing others' behavior to their character while ignoring the situation?
Fundamental attribution error
Which effect is decisions being influenced by whether information is presented as a gain or a loss?
Framing effect
Which fallacy is believing past random events affect the probability of future ones?
Gambler's fallacy
Which tendency makes losses feel psychologically more powerful than equivalent gains?
Loss aversion
Which bias is overestimating the likelihood of positive outcomes for yourself?
Optimism bias
Which bias is favoring members of your own group over outsiders?
In-group bias
Which bias is overemphasizing the most recent information when making judgments?
Recency bias
Which bias focuses on people or things that 'made it' while overlooking those that didn't?
Survivorship bias
Which effect makes us value an object more simply because we own it?
Endowment effect
Which bias is overestimating how much other people share your beliefs and opinions?
False consensus effect
Which effect makes us overestimate how much others notice our appearance and actions?
Spotlight effect
Which effect makes vague, general personality descriptions feel uniquely accurate to us?
Barnum effect
Which effect is remembering interrupted or incomplete tasks better than completed ones?
Zeigarnik effect
Which effect is developing a preference for things merely because they are familiar?
Mere exposure effect
Which fallacy is underestimating the time, costs, and risks needed to complete a task?
Planning fallacy
Which bias is the difficulty of imagining that others don't know what you know?
Curse of knowledge
Which effect describes contradicting evidence causing people to hold their beliefs even more strongly?
Backfire effect
Which bias is perceiving a relationship between two unrelated things or events?
Illusory correlation
Which bias gives more weight to the opinion of an authority figure regardless of its accuracy?
Authority bias
Which hypothesis is the belief that the world is fundamentally fair and people get what they deserve?
Just-world hypothesis
Which effect is avoiding or ignoring negative information that you'd rather not face?
Ostrich effect
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