availability heuristic
1Availability heuristic — The availability heuristic is a phenomenon (which can result in a cognitive bias) in which people base their prediction of the frequency of an event or the proportion within a population based on how easily an example can be brought to mind.… …
2Heuristic — (hyu̇ ˈris tik) is a method to help solve a problem, commonly an informal method. It is particularly used to rapidly come to a solution that is reasonably close to the best possible answer, or optimal solution . Heuristics are rules of thumb ,… …
3Availability — For the thermodynamic function availability , in the sense of available useful work, see exergy. For availability as a form of cognitive bias, see availability heuristic. In telecommunications and reliability theory, the term availability has the …
4Familiarity heuristic — In psychology, a mental heuristic, or rule of thumb in which current behavior is judged to be correct based on how similar it is to past behavior and its outcomes. Individuals assume that the circumstances underlying the past behavior still hold… …
5Representativeness heuristic — The representativeness heuristic is a heuristic wherein commonality between objects of similar appearance is assumed. While often very useful in everyday life, it can also result in neglect of relevant base rates and other errors. The… …
6Simulation heuristic — The simulation heuristic is a psychological heuristic, or simplified mental strategy, first theorized by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky as a specialized adaptation of the availability heuristic to explain counterfactual thinking and regret.… …
7List of cognitive biases — A cognitive bias is a pattern of poor judgment, often triggered by a particular situation. Identifying poor judgment, or more precisely, a deviation in judgment, requires a standard for comparison, i.e. good judgment . In scientific… …
8Verfügbarkeitsheuristik — Die Verfügbarkeitsheuristik (engl. availability heuristic) gehört in der Kognitionspsychologie zu den sogenannten Urteilsheuristiken, welche gewissermaßen Faustregeln darstellen, um Sachverhalte auch dann beurteilen zu können, wenn kein Zugang zu …
9How Doctors Think — Infobox Book | name = How Doctors Think title orig = translator = image caption = author = Jerome Groopman illustrator = country = United States language = English series = genre = Non fiction publisher = Houghton Mifflin release date = 2007… …
10Daniel Kahneman — Born March 5, 1934 (1934 03 05) (age 77) Tel Aviv, Israel …
