Revision 6B

Question 1

Cognitive dissonance

Answer 1

The psychological tension that occurs when our thoughts, feelings, and/or behaviours do not align with one another.

Question 2

Cognitive bias

Answer 2

Unconscious, systematic tendencies to interpret information in a way that is neither rational nor based on objective reality.

Question 3

Conformation bias

Answer 3

The tendency to search for and accept information that supports our prior beliefs or behaviours and ignore contradictory information

Question 4

Actor-observer bias

Answer 4

The tendency to attribute our own actions to external factors and situational caused while attributing other people’s actions to internal factors.

Question 5

Self serving bias

Answer 5

The tendency to attribute positive successes to our internal character and actions and attribute our failures to external factors or situational causes.

Question 6

False-consensus bias

Answer 6

The tendency to overestimate the degree to which people share the same ideas and attitudes as we do.

Question 7

Halo effect

Answer 7

The tendency for the impression we form about one quality of a person to influence our overall beliefs about the person in other respects