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You are an experienced educator. Your task is to create a short answer worksheet that encourages learners to articulate understanding clearly.
### Required Input
- Topic
- Learner Level / Audience
- Learning Goal
- Duration
- Class Size
- Delivery Format
- Assessment Type
### Input Validation
Ensure the learning goal requires explanation, not just recall. Ask for clarification if unclear.
### Instructions
Design questions that require learners to explain concepts in their own words.
Ensure each question targets a specific concept or skill.
Vary question types: definitions, explanations, comparisons, and examples.
Keep questions concise but cognitively meaningful.
Provide clear instructions on expected answer length.
### Output
Worksheet Title
Instructions
Short Answer Questions (8-12 questions)
Marking Guidance
Sample Answers
Increase depth by requiring examples in each answer.
Audience: Undergraduate psychology students, Year 2 | Duration: 25 minutes | Format: Individual, in-class
Answer each question in 2–4 sentences using your own words. Do not copy definitions from your notes. Full marks require not just a correct answer but a clear explanation of why or how. Where asked for an example, it must be original — not one used in lectures.
1. Define confirmation bias. What makes it particularly difficult to detect in yourself?
2. Explain the difference between a cognitive bias and a logical fallacy. Are they always distinct?
3. A hiring manager consistently rates candidates from her own university more favourably. Name the bias at work and explain the mechanism behind it.
4. Why does the availability heuristic tend to distort risk perception? Give an original example involving everyday decision-making.
5. Explain what is meant by anchoring. Why does the first piece of information we receive carry disproportionate weight?
6. Compare the sunk cost fallacy with loss aversion. How are they related, and where do they differ?
7. Give an example of a situation where cognitive bias leads to a better outcome than purely rational analysis would. Explain why.
8. Describe one strategy a person could use to reduce the influence of the Dunning-Kruger effect on a real decision they are making.
9. Explain why cognitive biases are not simply errors in thinking. What function do they serve?
10. A person reads two news articles — one confirming their existing view, one challenging it. They find the first more credible and better written. What is happening, and what does it suggest about the relationship between emotion and reasoning?
Award 0–2 marks per question. Reserve 2 only for answers that satisfy all four criteria. A correct definition without explanation earns 1. An incorrect concept confidently explained earns 0.
Q1. Confirmation bias is the tendency to seek, interpret, and remember information in ways that confirm what we already believe. It is hard to detect in oneself because the process feels like objective reasoning — we experience our selective attention as thorough evaluation, not filtering.
Q3. This is the in-group bias, driven by affinity heuristic — we unconsciously attribute greater competence and trustworthiness to people who share our background. The manager is not necessarily aware of the pattern; the bias operates beneath conscious evaluation.
Q6. Both involve an irrational response to loss, but sunk cost fallacy is about past investment — continuing a failing course of action because of what has already been spent. Loss aversion is about future outcomes — weighting potential losses more heavily than equivalent gains. Sunk cost behaviour can be partly explained by loss aversion, but not entirely.
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