COGNITIVE BIAS

Cognitive Bias

Cognitive Bias

Introduction

The study is related to cognitive bias which is discussed in context of research study as the researcher can have perception that his work is in accordance with the past researchers; however, the results may vary. In this context, cognitive bias is a term for systematic trends or tendencies in perceiving, remembering, thinking and judgments, which are mostly accurate, but occasionally wrong. Thus, the friend may have cognitive bias about his dissertation.

Discussion

Cognitive bias is a term from cognitive psychology. It describes systematic tendencies / biases in our perception and our thinking; systematic means that it is not about random error. In cognitive distortions specific decision factors are weighted more heavily than others and that can lead to bad decisions.

There are many different forms of cognitive distortion. It is basically part of the human mind and can hardly be prevented. Creativity techniques are aimed at alleviating cognitive distortions and barriers or abolished (Frederic, Agnes and John, 2009, 12-34). It may help that one of these are aware of thinking. Through collaborative creativity techniques in groups can be increased with the help of mutual feedback, the effectiveness of engineering creativity by each other's attention to perceived cognitive distortion makes.

A cognitive bias is an error in decision making and / or conduct taken against a given situation resulting from a flaw or weakness in the processing of information available. The study of cognitive biases is the subject of many studies in cognitive psychology, social psychology and more generally in cognitive science (Serfas, 2010, 32-46).

The term bias refers to the fact that the error thus made ??this a relatively systematic determinants lie in the mechanisms involved in cognitive processing applied to the situation. The work in psychology have identified numerous cognitive biases specific to the human spirit across multiple domains; perception, ...