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representativeness heuristic bias | similarity of objects or events confuses people's thinking regarding the probability of an outcome |
availability heuristic | our tendency to use information that comes to mind quickly and easily when making decisions about the future |
belief perseverance/bias | occurs when a person has clear evidence against a belief, but they still hold on to their previous belief |
functional fixedness | inability to realize that something known to have a particular use may also be used to perform other functions |
fixation | inability to see or define a problem from a fresh point of view. |
confirmation bias | tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that supports one's prior beliefs |
self-serving bias | when a person attributes positive outcomes to their own doing and negative outcomes to external factors. |
hindsight bias | when you think you knew something all along after the outcome occurred. |