Cognitive bias

Alexis Telyczka HUM102 H01 10/05/16 Vaccines, Cognitive Bias, and the Parent-Pediatrician Relationship The articles “Cognitive Processes and the Decisions of Some Parents to Forego Pertussis Vaccination for Their Children” by J. Meszaros, D. Asch, J. Baron, J. Hershey, H. Kunreuther, and J. Schwartz-Buzaglo; “Illusion of Control: The Role of Personal Involvement” by Ion Yarritu, Helena Matute, and Miguel A. Vadillo; and “Responding to Parental Refusals of Immunization of Children” by Douglas S. Diekema

(Critical Thinking) “Critical Thinking is the ability and willingness to assess claims and make objective judgments on the bases of well-supported reason and evidence, rather than emotion or anecdote” (Wade, Travris, & Garry, 2015, p13). “It is a way of thinking in which you don't simply accept all arguments and conclusions you are exposed to but rather have an attitude involving questioning such arguments and conclusions” (Study.com, 2017). I believe I am a critical thinker because I’m open-minded

Bias is defined as “prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair”. Each and everyone of us have a bias perspective towards one thing or another whether we are brave enough to admit or not. A person becomes bias through personal experiences or things they have read or heard. My brother and I used to play mario kart together and he would refuse to play unless he had the character “Wario” because he thought Wario was the

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH In retrospect, if the following leadership decision-making process criteria would have been followed many children would not have been exposed to molestation. The Freeh report (2012) made more than 100 recommendations for change to be instituted by PSU including restructuring governance; administration and general counsel structure, policies and procedures. Additionally, the university culture needs to transform stressing values and ethics-based decision making. A

will identify programs that currently target gender diversity and what they are implementing to combat such an issue. Secondly, the report will explain how business performance correlates to workplace diversity. Thirdly, the report will discuss cognitive bias and how this influences the workplace environment. Finally, the report will discuss any reflections and recommendations the writer feels necessary. The report will show the benefits of having a gender diverse workplace, it will show the challenges

undervalue that which does not support their fear. Confirmation bias is among the most common type of cognitive bias and a systematic error of inductive reasoning. It likely has lead to the polarization of political views that is seen in the world today. The effect of confirmation bias is stronger for emotionally charged issues and for deeply entrenched beliefs. People tend to interpret ambiguous data as supporting their pre-existing belief. This bias also is evident in belief perseverance (when beliefs persist

AVOID THINKING TRAPS KIMBERLY BLACKBURN WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY What has become known as Confirmation bias is the tendency people have to embrace information that supports their beliefs and reject information that contradicts them (Kolbert, 2017). The crash of Comair Flight 5191 in Lexington Kentucky in 2006 due to pilot error is a good example of confirmation bias. It is believed the flight crew convinced themselves they were on the right runway due runway lights that they were told

there seem to be many factors that influence the performance of facial recognition, such as age, gender, race and even particular social or cultural groups that people belong to. This experiment explores whether there is gender bias in face recognition. Own-gender bias in facial recognition is the tendency to recognise individuals from one’s own gender better than individuals from the other gender (Herlitz & Lovén, 2013). Categorisation-Individuation model: (Herlitz & Lovén, 2013) Categorisation:

your judgements. There are several different types of bias however the main ones are; analytical bias, cognitive bias, confounding bias, consistency bias, experimenter bias, omitted-variable bias, recency bias, reporting bias, selection bias and systematic bias. Firstly analytical bias arises due to the way that the results are evaluated. Secondly cognitive bias is a pattern of deviation in judgment, whereby inferences about

Personal Bias and How It Can Impact the Therapeutic Relationship When I started thinking critically about this assignment, I realized that I was stuck. I couldn’t think of a single bias that I could possibly have against someone but then it donned on me that I would have to go deeper and understand that biases can come in many different forms. And since I am not a professional therefore have never provided therapy to someone on a professional level, I am virtually unaware of what my potential biases