Cognitive Biases and Heuristics Flashcards
1
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Affect Heuristic
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Using how you feel about something to steer your judgment.
2
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Hindsight Bias
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Judging past actions inaccurately because of benefit of present knowledge
3
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Self-serving Bias
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Attribute success to internal (personal) factors, and failures to external factors
4
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Familiarity Heuristic
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Substituting difficult questions with “what am I familiar with”
5
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Halo Effect
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Tendency to like/ dislike everything about someone using first impressions of that person
6
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Bias Blindspot
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Failure to recognise one’s own vulnerability to bias
7
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Framing Effect
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Way information is presented (framed) which distorts our judgement
8
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Confirmation Bias
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Tendency to accept arguments and views which confirm and conform to views you already have
