Unit 2.1.2 Cognitive Dissonance Flashcards
1
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Cognitive dissonance
A
Discomfort people experience when they have conflicting beliefs or when their behaviours contradict their beliefs.
2
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Cognitive bias
A
- Systematic error in thinking
- Generally due to oversimplifying the info available
3
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Directly
A
Provided from the person we are judging
4
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Indirectly
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Through hearing about the person we are judging from another person or source.
5
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Confirmation bias
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Tendency to search for + accept info that supports our prior beliefs or behaviours + ignore contradictory info
6
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Anchoring bias
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Tendency to rely too heavily on the first piece of new info that we learn when making decisions.
7
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False-consensus bias
A
Tendency to overestimate how much others share our opinions or beliefs
8
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Self-serving bias
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- To attribute our positive successes to internal factors
- Failures to external factors
9
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Actor-observer bias
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- To attribute our own behaviour to situational (external) causes
- Behaviour of others to their internal factors
