Perceptual Biases and Cognitive Filters Quiz

Test your knowledge on biases and filters in decision-making. Explore anchoring, availability heuristic, and more in this cognitive psychology quiz.

#1

Which perceptual bias involves relying on the first piece of information encountered when making decisions?

Confirmation bias
Anchoring bias
Primacy effect
Recency effect
#2

In decision-making, what is the anchoring bias?

Relying on the first piece of information encountered
Giving more weight to recent information
Focusing on information that confirms preexisting beliefs
Tendency to rely too heavily on initial information
#3

What is the term for the tendency to attribute others' actions to internal factors and overlook external factors?

Fundamental attribution error
Confirmation bias
Anchoring bias
Recency effect
#4

What is the term for the tendency to rely on stereotypes and generalizations when making judgments about individuals from a particular group?

Stereotyping bias
Confirmation bias
Recency effect
Availability heuristic
#5

What is the term for the tendency to attribute others' behavior to internal factors and underestimate the influence of situational factors?

Fundamental attribution error
Confirmation bias
Recency effect
Stereotyping bias
#6

What is the term for the tendency to focus on information that confirms one's preexisting beliefs or values?

Availability heuristic
Confirmation bias
Hindsight bias
Anchoring bias
#7

Which cognitive filter involves giving more importance to recent information when making judgments or decisions?

Recency effect
Confirmation bias
Anchoring bias
Hindsight bias
#8

What is the term for the tendency to overestimate one's ability to predict an event after it has already occurred?

Confirmation bias
Hindsight bias
Availability heuristic
Recency effect
#9

Which cognitive filter involves the inclination to believe that events are more predictable after they have already occurred?

Primacy effect
Hindsight bias
Anchoring bias
Confirmation bias
#10

Which perceptual bias involves the tendency to believe that one's own cultural or social group is superior to others?

In-group bias
Confirmation bias
Out-group homogeneity bias
Self-serving bias
#11

What is the self-serving bias?

Attributing one's success to internal factors and failure to external factors
Focusing on information that confirms preexisting beliefs
Estimating the likelihood of an event based on its availability in memory
Relying on the first piece of information encountered
#12

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

Recency effect
Hindsight bias
Anchoring bias
Primacy effect
#13

Which perceptual bias involves the inclination to give more weight to information that comes later in a sequence?

Hindsight bias
Recency effect
Primacy effect
Availability heuristic
#14

What is the availability heuristic?

Relying on the first piece of information encountered
Giving more weight to recent information
Estimating the likelihood of an event based on its availability in memory
Tendency to rely too heavily on initial information
#15

Which perceptual bias involves the tendency to judge the probability of an event based on its ease of recall?

Recency effect
Availability heuristic
Hindsight bias
Anchoring bias
#16

Which cognitive filter involves the tendency to view members of an out-group as more homogenous than members of an in-group?

Self-serving bias
Out-group homogeneity bias
Fundamental attribution error
Confirmation bias
#17

In social psychology, what is the term for the tendency to underestimate the impact of situational factors and overestimate the influence of dispositional factors when explaining others' behavior?

Confirmation bias
Fundamental attribution error
Hindsight bias
Availability heuristic

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