174 notes tagged with "cognitive-bias"

Insensitivity to sample size

People tend to ignore sample size of data. They forget that variation is more likely in smaller sample sizes.

Tagged with: #cognitive-bias, #cbias-need-meaning, #cbias-meaning-from-little-data

Published on 8 months ago

Irrational escalation

When we get negative feedback for an outcome we are invested in, we increase effort towards it instead of altering course.

Tagged with: #cognitive-bias, #cbias-act-fast, #cbias-finish

Published on 8 months ago

Just-world hypothesis

Belief that people will get what they deserve. Or Everything happens for a reason.

Tagged with: #cognitive-bias, #cbias-need-meaning, #cbias-meaning-from-stereotypes

Published on 8 months ago

Leveling and sharpening

There are automatic functions of memory. Sharpening is when we remember small details in retelling of a memory. Leveling is when we leave out parts of the memory.

Tagged with: #cognitive-bias, #cbias-memory, #cbias-reduce-to-key

Published on 8 months ago

Levels of Processing model

We tend to remember things that have more depth of mental processing.

Tagged with: #cognitive-bias, #cbias-memory, #cbias-memory-experience, #memory

Published on 8 months ago

Linguistic relativity

The languages you know influence your cognition and world view.

Tagged with: #cognitive-bias, #cbias-avoid-irreversible, #cbias-prefer-simple

Published on 8 months ago

Magic number 7+-2

Number of items that can be held in short term memory: 7 +/- 2

Tagged with: #cognitive-bias, #cbias-need-meaning, #cbias-math-simplification

Published on 8 months ago

Memory inhibition

Memory inhibition is the ability **NOT** to remember irrelevant information.

Tagged with: #cognitive-bias, #cbias-memory, #cbias-reduce-to-key, #memory

Published on 8 months ago

Mental accounting

People tend to assign subjective value to money - this is susceptible to biases, thinking flaws.

Tagged with: #cognitive-bias, #cbias-need-meaning, #cbias-math-simplification

Published on 8 months ago

Misattribution of memory

We tend to wrongly identify the source of a memory at point of recall.

Tagged with: #cognitive-bias, #cbias-memory, #cbias-memory-edit

Published on 8 months ago

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