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Cognitive Biases and Social Perceptions in Organizational Behavior Quiz

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

Confirmation bias

Explanation

Preferring information confirming beliefs.

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

Anchoring bias

Explanation

Relying heavily on first information.

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

Hindsight bias

Explanation

Viewing events as more predictable post-occurrence.

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

Recency effect

Explanation

Remembering recent information better.

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

Overconfidence bias

Explanation

Overestimating own knowledge or abilities.

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

False consensus effect

Explanation

Overestimating others' similarity to oneself.

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

Recency effect

Explanation

Prioritizing recent information in decisions.

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

Availability heuristic

Explanation

Estimating likelihood based on ease of recall.

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

Overconfidence bias

Explanation

Overestimating predictive ability.

#10

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

Similarity bias

Explanation

Favoring those similar to oneself.

#11

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

Recency effect

Explanation

Giving more importance to recent information.

#12

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

Representativeness heuristic

Explanation

Judging likelihood based on similarity to past events.

#13

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

Availability heuristic

Explanation

Overestimating importance of easily available information.

#14

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

Fundamental attribution error

Explanation

Misattributing others' behavior.

#15

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

Self-serving bias

Explanation

Attributing successes internally, failures externally.

#16

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

Projection bias

Explanation

Judging others based on one's beliefs.

#17

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

Fundamental attribution error

Explanation

Misattributing others' successes and failures.

#18

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

Ethnocentrism

Explanation

Believing own culture is superior.

#19

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

Anchoring bias

Explanation

Decision-making based on initial information.

#20

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

Optimism bias

Explanation

Overestimating positive events, underestimating negative.

Cognitive Biases and Social Perceptions in Organizational Behavior Quiz

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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