WGU D265 Section 3: Critical Thinking Study Guide
(Latest Update 2023)
Confirmation Bias - correct answers ✅a tendency to search for information
that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory
evidence
How to Identify Sources of bias - correct answers ✅Incomplete information
intentional deception
influence from past personal experience
intentional persuasion to strengthen a position
common types of cognitive biases - correct answers ✅- Bandwagon
- Anchoring
- The Dunning-Kruger Effect
- The Sunk Cost Fallacy Bias
- Optimism and Pessimism Bias
- The Framing Effect Bias
- Confirmation Bias
- Reactance
- Self-Serving Bias
, WGU D265 Section 3: Critical Thinking Study Guide
(Latest Update 2023)
- Hindsight Bias
Bandwagon effect - correct answers ✅Believing or even performing an
action based on the fact that the people around you are also doing or
believing the same thing.
Anchoring - correct answers ✅Focusing a little too much on the first bit of
information you are given when making a decision.
Dunning-Kruger Effect - correct answers ✅Involves the overestimation and
underestimation of one's abilities.
sunk cost fallacy (bias) - correct answers ✅Involves the refusal to abandon
a thought or investment that is not rewarding or possibly even damaging
simply because we have invested a lot of time, thought, energy, effort, or
even money into it.
Optimism and Pessimism Bias - correct answers ✅The tendency to
overestimate how likely a positive outcome will occur, especially if we're in a
good mood. We also have the tendency to overestimate the negative
outcome of an event if we are not happy or in a bad mood.
(Latest Update 2023)
Confirmation Bias - correct answers ✅a tendency to search for information
that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory
evidence
How to Identify Sources of bias - correct answers ✅Incomplete information
intentional deception
influence from past personal experience
intentional persuasion to strengthen a position
common types of cognitive biases - correct answers ✅- Bandwagon
- Anchoring
- The Dunning-Kruger Effect
- The Sunk Cost Fallacy Bias
- Optimism and Pessimism Bias
- The Framing Effect Bias
- Confirmation Bias
- Reactance
- Self-Serving Bias
, WGU D265 Section 3: Critical Thinking Study Guide
(Latest Update 2023)
- Hindsight Bias
Bandwagon effect - correct answers ✅Believing or even performing an
action based on the fact that the people around you are also doing or
believing the same thing.
Anchoring - correct answers ✅Focusing a little too much on the first bit of
information you are given when making a decision.
Dunning-Kruger Effect - correct answers ✅Involves the overestimation and
underestimation of one's abilities.
sunk cost fallacy (bias) - correct answers ✅Involves the refusal to abandon
a thought or investment that is not rewarding or possibly even damaging
simply because we have invested a lot of time, thought, energy, effort, or
even money into it.
Optimism and Pessimism Bias - correct answers ✅The tendency to
overestimate how likely a positive outcome will occur, especially if we're in a
good mood. We also have the tendency to overestimate the negative
outcome of an event if we are not happy or in a bad mood.
