Cognitive Biases 001_100%

Cognitive Biases 001_100% Cognitive Biases - CORRECT ANSWER-Unconscious features of human psychology that tend to skew our thinking and affect the way we form beliefs. Belief Bias - CORRECT ANSWER-To evaluate reasoning by the believability of its conclusion Confirmation Bias - CORRECT ANSWER-Tendency to attach more weight to evidence that supports our own viewpoint Heuristics - CORRECT ANSWER-general rules we unconsciously follow in estimating probabilities Availability Heuristic - CORRECT ANSWER-Unconsciously assigning a probability to a type of event on the basis of how often one thinks of events of that type False Consensus Effect - CORRECT ANSWER-Inclination we may have to assume that our attitudes and those held by people around us are shared by society at large Bandwagon Effect - CORRECT ANSWER-Unconscious tendency to align one's thinking with that of other people. Solomon Asch. Negativity Bias - CORRECT ANSWER-Tendency people have to weight negative information more heavily than positive information when evaluating things