Psychological Biases in Decision-Making and Perception Quiz

Explore common cognitive biases with 12 quiz questions. Test your understanding of decision-making and perception biases. Can you identify anchoring, availability heuristic, and confirmation bias?

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Which psychological bias leads individuals to place more importance on the first piece of information they receive?

Confirmation bias

Anchoring bias

Availability heuristic

Primacy effect

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Which of the following is an example of the availability heuristic?

Judging the likelihood of an event based on its vividness in memory

Making decisions based on the most recent information received

Favoring information that confirms existing beliefs

Overestimating the importance of initial information

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What term describes the tendency to favor information that confirms existing beliefs or hypotheses?

Availability heuristic

Confirmation bias

Anchoring bias

Hindsight bias

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In decision-making, what does the anchoring bias refer to?

Overestimating the importance of initial information

Placing more emphasis on the most recent information received

Favoring information that confirms existing beliefs

Being influenced by the first piece of information encountered

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What is the term for the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it?

Confirmation bias

Hindsight bias

Recency bias

Anchoring bias

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Which psychological bias involves making decisions based on information that is readily available rather than complete data?

Anchoring bias

Hindsight bias

Availability heuristic

Recency bias

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

Recency bias

Anchoring bias

Confirmation bias

Hindsight bias

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Which psychological bias involves making decisions based on the most recent information received, rather than considering all relevant information?

Anchoring bias

Recency bias

Hindsight bias

Availability heuristic

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Which psychological bias involves placing undue emphasis on the most recent information received?

Recency bias

Availability heuristic

Anchoring bias

Confirmation bias

1 answered

#10

What term describes the tendency to judge the likelihood of an event based on its similarity to past events?

Hindsight bias

Availability heuristic

Representativeness heuristic

Confirmation bias

1 answered

#11

What term describes the tendency to see patterns or connections in random or meaningless data?

Apophenia

Hindsight bias

Availability heuristic

Self-serving bias

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#12

Which psychological bias involves the tendency to make decisions based on the potential for regret, rather than on expected utility?

Anchoring bias

Regret aversion

Confirmation bias

Hindsight bias

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Psychological Biases in Decision-Making and Perception Quiz

Which psychological bias leads individuals to place more importance on the first piece of information they receive?

Which of the following is an example of the availability heuristic?

What term describes the tendency to favor information that confirms existing beliefs or hypotheses?

In decision-making, what does the anchoring bias refer to?

What is the term for the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it?

Which psychological bias involves making decisions based on information that is readily available rather than complete data?

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

Which psychological bias involves making decisions based on the most recent information received, rather than considering all relevant information?

Which psychological bias involves placing undue emphasis on the most recent information received?

What term describes the tendency to judge the likelihood of an event based on its similarity to past events?

What term describes the tendency to see patterns or connections in random or meaningless data?

Which psychological bias involves the tendency to make decisions based on the potential for regret, rather than on expected utility?

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