Cognitive Biases 5th Hour Psych by

Mason and Bob

2024-10-28 16:45:04 UTC

Availability Heuristic Bias is a mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a persons mind when looking into a idea or topic.

Example- If you get a notification on your phone that your school just had someone kidnapped, you will immediately think bad about that school and give it a low safety rating.

What is the Dunning Kruger Effect?

katelyncharlier — 2024-10-28 16:46:03 UTC

This is a cognitive bias that states a lot of humans will over estimate our abilities - whether that be in intelligence or talents.

Example: Let's say you're a great swimmer and you won the 50m in high school. You then assume you can swim farther than you ever have just because you were once great.

2024-10-28 16:46:06 UTC

The anchoring effect is a psychological phenomenon in which an individual's judgments or decisions are influenced by a reference point or "anchor" which can be completely irrelevant. Both numeric and non-numeric anchoring have been reported in research.

example: If you see a $500 shirt then a $200 shirt you're more prone to see the second shirt as cheap

What is in group bias?

katelyncharlier — 2024-10-28 16:47:29 UTC

This is a cognitive bias that states we favor whatever group we are in as superior or better than. We tend to view our group as the most important.

Example: We play Seneca in 2A Football Playoffs on Friday night. We obviously will beat them - we are EPG. We're better.

Tucker, Micah, and Drini

2024-10-28 16:51:54 UTC

Definition= You have the tendency to see yourself as less biased than someone else.

Example: someone purchases an extra box of cereal at the grocery store. Their blind spot bias might trick them into thinking that they love that brand of cereal, therefore they feel the need to buy one more box.

Confirmation Bias

2024-10-28 16:52:48 UTC

Def of Bias - Prejudice in favor or against a certain thing.

Confirmation Bias - The tendency to interpret new evidence as confirmation of ones existing beliefs or theories.

Ex - If some one is told that a book they are reading is "great", they will often look for reasons to confirm that opinion while reading.