PSYC 102: Biases, Fallacies, and Heuristics - Statistics

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Question	Answer	% Correct
tendency of people to favour information that confirms or strengthens their beliefs and values (difficult to dislodge once affirmed)	confirmation bias	100%
scientific study of behaviours and their accompanied mental processes	psychology	75%
to assign a disproportionate amount of evidence in favour of one outcome	biases	50%
an error in reasoning	fallacies	50%
method used to examine behaviour	scientific method	50%
our tendency to rely on the first piece of evidence we received when making a decision	anchoring bias	25%
our tendency to believe a claim if it is given by an authority figure	appeal to authority fallacy	25%
to persuade an audience by purposely evoking certain emotions to make them feel the way the author wants them to feel	appeal to emotion fallacy	25%
our tendency to evaluate a claim based on how easy evidence comes to mind	availability heuristic	25%
tendency to believe that a claim simply because the majority believes it	bandwagon fallacy	25%
our tendency to stick with our intial belief, even when opposing evidence is presented	belief perseverance	25%
mental shortcuts	heuristics	25%
our tendency to believe that we do not succumb to the same shortcoming others do	not-me fallacy	25%
our tendency to evaluate the likelihood of an outcome based upon the likelihood of the outcome in our past experiences	representativeness heuristic	25%
our tendency to believe that a small change could lead to much greater, often disastrous, changes	slippery slope fallacy	25%

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