Cognitive Bias

Question 1

Priming

Answer 1

Nudges that produce association in your unconscious mind

Question 2

Confirmation Bias

Answer 2

You pay attention to information that confirms previously held beliefs and ignore information that challenges preconceived notions

Question 3

Hindsight Bias

Answer 3

Looking back on things just learned and assuming you knew or believed them all along

Question 4

Bystander Affect

Answer 4

The more people who witness someone in distress, the less likely it is that any one individual will help

Question 5

Apophenia

Answer 5

Seeing meaning in random, unconnected events

Question 6

Misinformation Effect

Answer 6

The tendency to trust your memory, despite memories being constructed anew each time you recall them (rather than being played back like a recording)

Question 7

Availability Heuristic

Answer 7

Tendency to believe something as commonplace if you can find just one example, and disbelieve something if you have never heard of it

Question 8

Self-Serving Bias

Answer 8

Tendency to excuse your own past failures and inflate your successes

Question 9

Representativeness Heuristic

Answer 9

Tendency to draw conclusions about people based on how representative of a preconceived notion they seem to be