PSYCH 115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Confirmation Bias, Premarital Sex, Cognitive Bias
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Hindsight bias - psychological phenomenon in which people exaggerate the predictability of an event after it has already happened. Confirmation bias - a tendency to search for or interpret information in a way that confirms one"s preconceptions leading to errors - the tendency to interpret new evidence as confirmation of one"s existing beliefs or theories. Availability bias - cognitive phenomenon that causes us to overestimate probabilities of events associated with memorable or vivid occurrences. Self-serving bias - cognitive bias in which tends to enhance the ego and self confidence of an individual. False consensus effect (bias) - cognitive tendency (and bias) to overestimate how the degree to which our own behavior, attitudes, beliefs and so on are shaped by other people. You don"t believe in smoking so neither does anyone else. Attempts to answer fundamental questions about the nature of behavior. Theoretical issues often concern basic phenomena, such as cognition, emotion, motivation, learning, psychobiology, personality development and social behavior.
