Availability Bias Is the Tendency for People to Base Judgments

question 128

True/False

Availability bias is the tendency for people to base judgments on information that is readily available to them.

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Definitions:

Negative Thinking

A cognitive pattern where an individual consistently perceives situations or experiences in a pessimistic or detrimental manner.

Learned Helplessness

A condition in which a person suffers from a sense of powerlessness, arising from a traumatic event or persistent failure to succeed, believed to be beyond their control.

Passive Resignation

A behavioral response characterized by a willingness to accept or submit to a situation or process without active resistance or protest.

Pessimistic Explanatory Style

A tendency to explain negative events as being inevitable and due to internal, stable, and global factors.