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Person Finance
Chapter 1 Vocab Quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cognitive Bias | An error in the way we think that can influence our decisions |
| Behavioral Economics | Combines economics and psychology to study why people behave the way they do |
| Overconfidence Bias | The tendency to be more confident in your own abilities compared to others |
| FOMO( fear of missing out) | The tendency to feel anxiety/fear that an exciting or interesting event may currently be happening elsewhere, often aroused by posts seen on a social media website |
| Endownment Effect | The tendency to put more value on things you already own |
| Sunk Cost Fallacy | The tendency to make decisions about a current situation based on what resources you have already invested in the situation |
| Transaction Utility | The amount of mental pressure or pain we get from feeling like we paid less or more than something is really worth |
| Mental Accounting | The tendency to separate money into imaginary categories in your mind |
| Loss Aversion | Regarding losses as considerably more important than gains of comparable magnitude |
| Herd Mentality | The tendency to conform to the behaviors and beliefs of the people around you; ( also known as the Bandwagon Effect) |
| Hedonic Adaptation | Returning to a baseline level of happiness wether you go through a positive or negative experience or event |
| Conformation Bias | The tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions |