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When you flip a coin and get heads five times in a row, expecting tails to be "due" next exemplifies this common reasoning error.
- Gambler's fallacy
- Sunk cost fallacy
- Confirmation bias
- Hindsight bias
After a plane crash makes headlines, many travelers switch to driving despite cars being statistically more dangerous—illustrating this mental shortcut.
- Confirmation bias
- Availability heuristic
- Hindsight bias
- Sunk cost fallacy
Before an election, polls show your candidate ahead, so you stay home—but if everyone thinks this way, your side loses. This describes what dilemma?
- Prisoner's dilemma
- Trolley problem
- Free rider problem
- Tragedy of the commons
When given 24 jam varieties to sample, shoppers buy less than when offered only 6 options—demonstrating what phenomenon?
- Choice overload
- Decision fatigue
- Analysis paralysis
- Buyer's remorse
Rather than calculating exact probabilities, you quickly judge a person as a librarian because they're quiet and wear glasses—using this mental shortcut.
- Representativeness heuristic
- Availability heuristic
- Anchoring heuristic
- Recognition heuristic
Two suspects are interrogated separately; each could go free by betraying the other, but if both betray, both suffer. This classic scenario is called what?
- Tragedy of the commons
- Prisoner's dilemma
- Stag hunt
- Chicken game
Judging a job candidate as competent in all areas because they dressed well exemplifies this tendency to generalize from one positive trait.
- Halo effect
- Affinity bias
- Attribution error
- Primacy effect
Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman distinguished between fast, intuitive thinking and slow, deliberate reasoning—calling these what two systems?
- Alpha and Beta systems
- Type A and Type B thinking
- System 1 and System 2
- Primary and Secondary processing
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