Cognitive Biases

Question 1

the common human tendency for people to focus too much on one particular detail

Answer 1

Anchoring

Question 2

Believing that an event could have been predicted after it already happened

Answer 2

Hindsight

Question 3

when an event or thing, person, etc. Is similar to another event thing or person and when comparing them you think they are more correlated than they actually are

Answer 3

Representative

Question 4

is when the options that seem to be available are all inaccurate or false but you think surely one of them must be correct

Answer 4

Availability Decision

Question 5

part of the introspection illusion this bias is when people trust their intuition and decisions despite not knowing why and sticking to that decision naturally trusting their own opinion over others see the attraction experiment

Answer 5

Choice Blindness

Question 6

focusing too much on one aspect of one thing or person because that thing is more important to you or just because you’ve found yourself fixated on it. This causing all the other aspects to matter less or be ignored completely swaying your opinion to be more positive or negative than the actual truth.

Answer 6

The Halo Effect

Question 7

preferring the people or things that you are closest to or most familiar with because sticking to what you know has worked before so there is no need to take a chance and risk anything

Answer 7

Ingroup Bias or Tribalism

Question 8

falling into this natural instinct when you feel hurt or threatened emotionally getting angry or leaving the situation when it would have been better to figure it out calmly. Freezing in this circumstance is the same as the repression defense mechanism where you ignore and refuse to internalize. It’s any kind of retreat into your own head

Answer 8

Fight Flight Freeze