Understanding Cognitive Biases and Their Impact Quiz

Test your knowledge on cognitive biases with these 13 insightful questions. Learn how biases impact decision-making and perception.

#1

Which cognitive bias refers to the tendency to rely too heavily on the first piece of information encountered?

Confirmation Bias
Anchoring Bias
Availability Heuristic
Primacy Effect
2 answered
#2

What is the term for the tendency to favor information that confirms one's preexisting beliefs or hypotheses?

Recency Bias
Confirmation Bias
Hindsight Bias
Anchoring Bias
1 answered
#3

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

Availability Heuristic
Recency Bias
Hindsight Bias
Framing Effect
1 answered
#4

Which cognitive bias involves overestimating the likelihood of events with greater 'availability' in memory?

Recency Bias
Availability Heuristic
Framing Effect
Hindsight Bias
#5

Which cognitive bias involves attributing success to personal characteristics while attributing failure to external factors?

Fundamental Attribution Error
Self-Serving Bias
Halo Effect
Confirmation Bias
#6

What is the term for the tendency to believe that one would have foreseen an event after it has occurred?

Recency Bias
Hindsight Bias
Availability Heuristic
Anchoring Bias
#7

Which cognitive bias involves the tendency to overestimate one's own ability or knowledge?

Overconfidence Bias
Confirmation Bias
Anchoring Bias
Hindsight Bias
#8

What is the tendency to judge the likelihood or frequency of an event based on how easily it comes to mind?

Anchoring Bias
Hindsight Bias
Availability Heuristic
Confirmation Bias
#9

What is the tendency to judge the frequency or probability of events by the ease with which relevant instances come to mind?

Recency Bias
Hindsight Bias
Availability Heuristic
Confirmation Bias
#10

Which cognitive bias involves the tendency to give undue weight to the first information received?

Confirmation Bias
Anchoring Bias
Hindsight Bias
Availability Heuristic
#11

Which cognitive bias involves the tendency to see patterns in random data?

Apophenia
Recency Bias
Confirmation Bias
Availability Heuristic
#12

Which cognitive bias involves the tendency to overestimate the importance of information that is easily available?

Availability Heuristic
Recency Bias
Anchoring Bias
Hindsight Bias
#13

What is the term for the tendency to give greater weight to the first information received when making decisions?

Confirmation Bias
Anchoring Bias
Recency Bias
Availability Heuristic

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