WGU D265 COMPREHENSIVE EXAM
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ANSWERS GRADED APLUS
◉ Why is it important to recognize cognitive bias?
Answer: It can help to mitigate negative effects on our thinking.
Awareness of learning common ways the human mind can go astray
can help us avoid errors in our own reasoning and spot such errors
in others' reasoning.
◉ Heuristic
Answer: A rule of thumb, a ready strategy, or a shortcut
◉ Algorithm bubble
Answer: The curated and personalized version of online reality that
a website shows you when you log on.
◉ Availability heuristic
Answer: A process where in the mind generalizes based on what is
available to it rather than on what is objectively true.
◉ Irrational decision making
, Answer: allows irrelevant biases, emotions, and environment to
influence our decisions
◉ bounded rationality
Answer: A set of boundaries or constraints that tend to complicate
the rational decision-making process
◉ Satisficing
Answer: We make the best choices we can, making choices that are
good enough. We make choices that suffice to satisfy our needs.
◉ representativeness heuristic
Answer: - a mental shortcut whereby people classify something
according to how similar it is to a typical case
- when faced with a new situation, we find the nearest prototype in
our mind and use what we know about that prototype to help us
understand what is happening right in front of us.
◉ upshots
Answer: aftermath, result
◉ upshots of heuristics
SCRIPT VERIFIED QUESTIONS COMPLETE
ANSWERS GRADED APLUS
◉ Why is it important to recognize cognitive bias?
Answer: It can help to mitigate negative effects on our thinking.
Awareness of learning common ways the human mind can go astray
can help us avoid errors in our own reasoning and spot such errors
in others' reasoning.
◉ Heuristic
Answer: A rule of thumb, a ready strategy, or a shortcut
◉ Algorithm bubble
Answer: The curated and personalized version of online reality that
a website shows you when you log on.
◉ Availability heuristic
Answer: A process where in the mind generalizes based on what is
available to it rather than on what is objectively true.
◉ Irrational decision making
, Answer: allows irrelevant biases, emotions, and environment to
influence our decisions
◉ bounded rationality
Answer: A set of boundaries or constraints that tend to complicate
the rational decision-making process
◉ Satisficing
Answer: We make the best choices we can, making choices that are
good enough. We make choices that suffice to satisfy our needs.
◉ representativeness heuristic
Answer: - a mental shortcut whereby people classify something
according to how similar it is to a typical case
- when faced with a new situation, we find the nearest prototype in
our mind and use what we know about that prototype to help us
understand what is happening right in front of us.
◉ upshots
Answer: aftermath, result
◉ upshots of heuristics
