ENGLISH REVIEWER

Cards (13)

  • Biases - It is a tendency to favor one person, group, or point of view over another often in an unfair way.
  • Representative bias - may lead to snap judgments because of a situation's similarities to an earlier matter
  • Cognitive dissonance - leads to an avoidance of uncomfortable facts that contradict one's convictions.
  • Home country bias and familiarity bias - lead to an avoidance of anything outside one's comfort zone.
  • Mood bias, optimism (or pessimism) bias, and overconfidence bias - describe all notes of irrationality and emotion to the decision-making process.
  • Confirmation bias - describes how people naturally favor information that confirms their previously existing beliefs.
  • The endowment effect - causes people to over-value the things they own just because they own them.
  • Status quo bias - biases that happen due to resistance to change.
  • Truth - the quality or state of being true.
  • Truth - When something is true, it is real, factual, honest, sincere, believable and credible.
  • Literature should be truthful.
  • Literature is not meant to deceive people. It is meant to mirror the reality and truths of life
  • Allegory - refers to a story, poem or painting where the characters, settings and events symbolize particular ideas, truths about human life.