Cognitive Biases and Social Psychology Quiz

Challenge yourself with these 14 questions on cognitive biases and social psychology. Test your understanding of human behavior!

#1

What is the term for the tendency to rely too heavily on the first piece of information encountered?

Confirmation bias
Anchoring bias
Availability heuristic
Primacy effect
#2

Which cognitive bias refers to the tendency to attribute one's successes to internal factors while attributing failures to external factors?

Fundamental attribution error
Self-serving bias
Confirmation bias
Hindsight bias
#3

What is the term for the tendency to overestimate the probability of rare events based on how easily they come to mind?

Availability heuristic
Base rate fallacy
Hindsight bias
Representativeness heuristic
#4

Which cognitive bias involves the tendency to favor information that confirms one's preconceptions regardless of whether the information is true?

Confirmation bias
Anchoring bias
Halo effect
Bandwagon effect
#5

Which cognitive bias involves the tendency to overestimate one's ability to predict future events?

Overconfidence bias
Confirmation bias
Anchoring bias
Availability heuristic
#6

What is the term for the tendency to prefer options that are presented first in a list?

Recency effect
Primacy effect
Anchoring bias
Halo effect
#7

What is the term for the tendency to overestimate the probability of an event occurring simply because it comes to mind easily?

Availability heuristic
Recency effect
Base rate fallacy
Hindsight bias
#8

Which cognitive bias involves the tendency to seek out information that supports one's pre-existing beliefs while ignoring contradictory evidence?

Confirmation bias
Anchoring bias
Halo effect
Bandwagon effect
#9

What is the term for the tendency to judge the frequency or likelihood of an event based on how easily examples come to mind?

Availability heuristic
Hindsight bias
Base rate fallacy
Anchoring bias
#10

Which cognitive bias involves the tendency to overestimate the influence of personality and underestimate the influence of situations in explaining social behavior?

Fundamental attribution error
Self-serving bias
Hindsight bias
Confirmation bias
#11

What is the term for the tendency to view past events as being more predictable than they actually were?

Hindsight bias
Availability heuristic
Anchoring bias
Confirmation bias
#12

Which cognitive bias involves the tendency to believe that one's opinions or beliefs are representative of the wider population?

False consensus effect
Halo effect
Anchoring bias
Base rate fallacy
#13

What is the term for the tendency to focus on the most salient or striking features of a person or situation when forming impressions?

Anchoring bias
Halo effect
Recency effect
Primacy effect
#14

Which cognitive bias involves the tendency to believe that we could have predicted an event after it has occurred?

Hindsight bias
Availability heuristic
Fundamental attribution error
False consensus effect

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