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?

#1

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
#2

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
#3

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

Availability heuristic
Confirmation bias
Anchoring bias
Hindsight bias
#4

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
#5

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
#6

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
#7

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
#8

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
#9

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

Recency bias
Availability heuristic
Anchoring bias
Confirmation bias
#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
#11

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

Apophenia
Hindsight bias
Availability heuristic
Self-serving bias
#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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