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    explain the general concept of cognitive biases in your own words. Choose two specific types of cognitive bias‚ explain them‚ and provide an example in your own life where this bias resulted in your making a poor decision. How might that mistake have been avoided? First‚ cognitive biases are instances where personal judgement can cause problems when trying to make decisions effectively. Honestly‚ I find it a little difficult to always keep biases out of our natural cognitive thinking‚ it’s the way we

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    Cognitive Bias When I think of cognitive bias‚ I think about people making assumptions about others base on either what they have heard from other people or something they have experienced themselves. In order to figure out what biases I have I had to ask my wife. After some discussion we came to the conclusion that I have a couple of biases. The two that we came up with can be very controversial‚ religion and race. I wouldn’t say that I’m a religious freak or that I’m racist‚ I just have my own

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    incorporate behavioural finance into their analysis of an investor’s portfolio. The use of behavioural finance concepts will create the following opportunities for HelloWallet. Availability Bias: People will be influenced more by what they can easily retrieve from memory. Availability bias is a human cognitive bias‚ which causes us to overestimate probabilities of events associated with memorable occurrences. A prime example of this would be plane crashes. Plane crashes are extremely rare; however

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    Bias in Shopping

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    subject for this essay. A short stroll to a local supermarket (any supermarket witnesses an enormous number of individual decisions) served both as material for a reflection and as an attempt to understand how consumers’ choices can be influenced. Cognitive biases can affect consumers’ choices even when picking products that they need. Or do we really need them? The examples of anchoring and confirmation biases are hereby presented. Anchoring toilet paper prices Similarly to your need to buy food

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    Heuristics and Bias

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    Running head: Heuristics and Bias Heuristics and Bias Ebony J. Travis American Intercontinental University Professor Walter McCord Decision Making BUS300-0704A-03 October 27‚ 2007 Volvo: A Consumer’s Choice As an employee of It’s Electric‚ I have been delegated the assignment of picking a line of automobiles to use as company cars. On the grounds of economy and longevity‚ I am looking to purchase Volvo’s after some research on Consumer Reports. Through an exclusive fleet program

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    Cognitive Biases In Racism

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    Cognitive biases are described as errors in one’s judgements caused by the filtering of information through his/her personal preferences‚ memories‚ and experiences. Correspondingly‚ racism is described as a prejudice or discrimination against someone of a different race because of one’s personal beliefs and preferences. In this paper‚ I will be discussing two specific cognitive biases that I believe play the biggest role in the development of racism: the confirmation bias and the availability heuristic

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    Cognitive biases are tendencies to make decisions in ways that can lead to systematic deviations from a standard of rationality‚ good judgment or optimal outcomes‚ often resulting in the person being worst off. There an overwhelming amount of these biases researched and documented to be in effect during our decision making process by many experiments to confirm their validity. Cognitive biases are useful as mental shortcuts that help reduce mental efforts for faster judgments‚ solve problems‚ and

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    Cognitive Restructuring Schemas Renay Gartner‚ Psy.D • First‚ an example: Cognitive Restructuring • Thinking errors or cognitive distortions were identified early on (Beck 1976‚ Beck et al 1979‚ Beck et al 1985b) from clinical observations • Biases lead people to selectively focus attention on the negative and/or not attend/discount contrary information – in line with their dysfunctional schema – Schema = core organizing beliefs or personal meaning structures; out of awareness

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    How Bias Influences Critical Thinking CRT/205 7/21/2013 I suggested a friend of mine who I’d known for 10 years apply for a position where I work. In the beginning everything seemed to be working out. Then the management team decided to switch our supervisor and hire people who supported their “new vision”. 6 months into the job my friend received a good review and a raise. Three weeks later she was fired. The first thing I thought was there is something not right here . She had never been given

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    Confirmation Bias

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    Confirmation Bias Amber Daniel 3/14/2012 PSY/285 Monica Mauri Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for or interpret new information in a way that confirms one’s perceptions and avoids information and interpretations which contradict prior beliefs

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