Psychological biases and cognitive processes Quiz

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#1

Which psychological bias refers to the tendency to give more importance to the first piece of information encountered when making decisions?

Confirmation bias
Anchoring bias
Availability bias
Recency bias
2 answered
#2

What cognitive process involves organizing and interpreting sensory information to give it meaning?

Memory
Perception
Decision-making
Attention
2 answered
#3

Which cognitive bias leads individuals to believe that they are less likely to experience negative events compared to others?

Overconfidence bias
Optimism bias
Self-serving bias
Dunning-Kruger effect
2 answered
#4

What is the term for the cognitive bias where individuals attribute their successes to internal factors and their failures to external factors?

Fundamental attribution error
Self-serving bias
Confirmation bias
Hindsight bias
2 answered
#5

Which cognitive bias involves giving more weight to information that confirms preexisting beliefs and discounting evidence that contradicts them?

Confirmation bias
Hindsight bias
Availability bias
Anchoring bias
2 answered
#6

What term is used to describe the tendency to rely on the first piece of information encountered when making decisions, even if it's irrelevant?

Anchoring bias
Recency bias
Confirmation bias
Hindsight bias
2 answered
#7

Which cognitive bias involves the tendency to attribute one's own positive actions to internal factors while attributing negative actions to external factors?

Fundamental attribution error
Self-serving bias
Confirmation bias
Cognitive dissonance
2 answered
#8

In which stage of memory does information undergo encoding for storage?

Sensory memory
Short-term memory
Long-term memory
Working memory
1 answered
#9

In which stage of memory does rehearsal play a crucial role in transferring information to long-term storage?

Sensory memory
Short-term memory
Working memory
Long-term memory
1 answered
#10

Which cognitive bias involves the tendency to see events as having been predictable after they have already occurred?

Hindsight bias
Recency bias
Confirmation bias
Availability bias
1 answered
#11

What term describes the phenomenon where people tend to focus on the most recent information when making decisions or judgments?

Anchoring bias
Recency bias
Availability bias
Hindsight bias
1 answered
#12

In the context of decision-making, what does the term 'sunk cost fallacy' refer to?

Overestimating future benefits
Ignoring past costs
Continuing a course of action due to prior investment
Focusing on recent information
1 answered

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