Psychological bias

Question 1

Confirmation bias

Answer 1

A psychological bias towards hearing only agreement with your views by interpreting arguments as supporting your views when they don’t, or ignoring those that don’t.

Question 2

Psychological bias

Answer 2

A tendency to think in certain ways that can lead to systematic deviations from a standard of rationality or good judgement. Also known as a cognitive bias.

Question 3

Availability Heuristic

Answer 3

A psychological bias that conflates how easy something is to recall with its frequency of occurrence and relevance to the current argument.

Question 4

Framing Effect

Answer 4

A psychological bias affecting our preferences, influenced by whether options are framed in a positive or negative manner.

Question 5

Anchoring & Adjustment

Answer 5

The psychological bias to fixate on any arbitrary but specific number as an anchor, and vary your actions based on that anchor. Decisions of value or worth are heavily influenced or ‘contaminated’ by this anchor.

Question 6

Pattern-seeking

Answer 6

A disposition to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than we find.

Question 7

Apophenia

Answer 7

The tendency to perceive meaningful patterns within random data.

Question 8

Pareidolia

Answer 8

The perception of images or sounds in random stimuli. It is a sensory sub-type of Apophenia.