Cognitive dissonance + bias

Question 1

What is cognitive dissonance?

Answer 1

when a persons behaviour does not match with their beliefs
Ex/
A: dislike watching cricket
B: watches anyway
C: believes it takes too long for a result

Question 2

What is confirmation bias?

Answer 2

when a person focuses on and favours information supporting their perspectives while ignoring contradictory info

Question 3

what is the halo effect?

Answer 3

when we hold one positive quality about someone and disregard other qaulities they have

Question 4

what is self-serving bias?

Answer 4

tendency for a person to attribute a positive outcome to internal factors yet attribute negative outcomes to external factors
Ex/ footballer misess goal, blames wind instead of skill

Question 5

what is false-consensus bias?

Answer 5

tendency for people to assume their attitudes, beliefs and behaviours are relativiely common and are more widley shared by others than they think
Ex/ justifying risk taking behaviour by claiming ‘everyone does it’

Question 6

what is actor-oberserver bias?

Answer 6

attribute your own bahviour as external factors whilst attributing internal factors to others
Ex/ you throw litter on the ground cause there is no available bin, someone else does it because they are inconsiderate