Cognitive Biases and Social Perceptions in Organizational Behavior Quiz

Test your knowledge of cognitive biases in organizational behavior with this quiz. Identify biases shaping social perceptions & decision-making.

#1

What cognitive bias involves giving preference to information that confirms pre-existing beliefs?

Confirmation bias
Anchoring bias
Availability heuristic
Hindsight bias
#2

Which cognitive bias refers to the tendency to rely heavily on the first piece of information encountered?

Confirmation bias
Anchoring bias
Availability heuristic
Hindsight bias
#3

What cognitive bias involves the tendency to view events as being more predictable after they have occurred?

Hindsight bias
Overconfidence bias
Confirmation bias
Recency effect
#4

Which cognitive bias involves the tendency to remember recent information more accurately than earlier information?

Recency effect
Framing effect
Availability heuristic
Anchoring bias
#5

What cognitive bias involves the tendency to overestimate one's own knowledge or abilities?

Overconfidence bias
Confirmation bias
Anchoring bias
Hindsight bias
#6

Which cognitive bias involves the tendency to believe that others share our beliefs and behaviors more than they actually do?

False consensus effect
Halo effect
Availability heuristic
Anchoring bias
#7

What cognitive bias involves the tendency to place greater importance on the most recent information when making decisions?

Recency effect
Framing effect
Availability heuristic
Anchoring bias
#8

Which cognitive bias involves estimating the likelihood of an event based on how easily examples come to mind?

Confirmation bias
Anchoring bias
Availability heuristic
Hindsight bias
#9

What is the tendency to overestimate one's ability to predict future events?

Overconfidence bias
Anchoring bias
Recency effect
Framing effect
#10

What cognitive bias involves the tendency to favor individuals who are similar to oneself?

Halo effect
Similarity bias
Stereotyping
Self-serving bias
#11

Which cognitive bias involves placing greater importance on the most recent information available?

Recency effect
Framing effect
Availability heuristic
Anchoring bias
#12

Which cognitive bias involves the tendency to judge the likelihood of an event based on how closely it resembles past events?

Representativeness heuristic
Framing effect
Availability heuristic
Anchoring bias
#13

What cognitive bias involves the tendency to overestimate the importance of information that is more readily available?

Recency effect
Availability heuristic
Representativeness heuristic
Anchoring bias
#14

Which cognitive bias involves the tendency to judge others' behaviors as being due to internal factors rather than situational factors?

Fundamental attribution error
Self-serving bias
Projection bias
Confirmation bias
#15

Which cognitive bias involves the tendency to attribute one's successes to internal factors and failures to external factors?

Fundamental attribution error
Halo effect
Self-serving bias
Stereotyping
#16

Which cognitive bias involves the tendency to judge others based on one's own beliefs and values?

Projection bias
Fundamental attribution error
Halo effect
Stereotyping
#17

What cognitive bias involves the tendency to attribute one's own successes to internal factors and failures to external factors when judging others?

Projection bias
Fundamental attribution error
Self-serving bias
Stereotyping
#18

Which cognitive bias involves the tendency to believe that one's own culture or group is superior to others?

In-group bias
Out-group homogeneity bias
Ethnocentrism
Stereotyping
#19

Which cognitive bias involves the tendency to make decisions based on the first piece of information encountered?

Recency effect
Framing effect
Anchoring bias
Availability heuristic
#20

What cognitive bias involves the tendency to overestimate the likelihood of positive events and underestimate the likelihood of negative events?

Optimism bias
Pessimism bias
Confirmation bias
Recency effect

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