Cognition Review

When people overestimate the importance of information that is available to them because they are using a mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a given person's mind when evaluating a specific concept or topic

______________ are shortcuts and incomplete simplified strategies that we use that does not guarantee a solution.

Using heuristics could lead to _________________ ______________.

______________ _________ is the tendency to seek out information that confirms pre-existing beliefs.

Searching "Why was Satchel Paige the greatest baseball player of all time?" is an example of:

The tendency people have to be more confident in their own abilities.

Stephanie and Nik were such a cute couple. When they broke up, a neighbor was shocked at first, but a day later commented that he always knew their relationship wouldn’t last. The neighbor’s comment most likely illustrates

When Tom and Alice were dating, he learned that she liked to receive flowers after they had a fight. Years, later, Tom dates another woman and after having a fight, he stops by the florist to order a bouquet of flowers. Tom is likely affected by which cognitive occurrence.