Psych

Question 1

Confirmation bias

Answer 1

Interpret information/comprehend information in favour of your own existing beliefs/hypotheses

Question 2

Availability heuristic

Answer 2

Making quick decisions by judging the likelihood of an event based on information you can recall rather than calculating the actual probability

Question 3

Framing effect

Answer 3

People’s perception of information varies due to the presentation in either a positive or negative frame

Question 4

Pattern seeking

Answer 4

A cognitive bias to seek patterns and sense regularity. This can cause us to make unwarranted inferences

Question 5

Survivorship bias

Answer 5

People focus on success and believe it must be equally possible to achieve; ignore the rate of failure or negative consequences

Question 6

Moral biases

Answer 6

humans subconsciously have a set of moral standards to inform our personal judgments e.g. Just world hypothesis, which is the judgment of fairness

Question 7

Being wrong

Answer 7

Some people struggle to admit they’re wrong/could be wrong and this can be due to, for example, arrogance or social embarrassment

Question 8

Intentionality bias

Answer 8

The bias towards believing events happen for a discernible purpose or with intent rather than by accident

Question 9

Anchoring and adjustment

Answer 9

e.g. what is the population of a country. Is it above or below a number. Our responses will be anchored to that number and will vary closely around that value