Intermediate Accounting
3rd Edition
ISBN: 9780136912644
Author: Elizabeth A. Gordon; Jana S. Raedy; Alexander J. Sannella
Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
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Chapter 3, Problem 3.3BE
Match Each Cognitive Bias Below with its Description.
| Availability bias | a. A phenomenon that occurs in situations where members of a group, in an attempt to avoid conflict, reach a consensus decision without considering all of the reasonable alternatives. |
| Overconfidence bias |
b. The tendency to be more confident than your abilities and experience level would objectively warrant. |
| Confirmatory bias |
c. The tendency to use the data that is most readily available or most easily recalled to make a decision, as opposed to considering all relevant data. |
| Groupthink bias |
d. The decision maker focuses on one piece of information, weighting it more heavily than other pieces of information. |
| Anchoring bias | e. A decision maker under-weights information that is not consistent with her initial beliefs. |
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