Question

B) As you think about your personal goals and aspirations, what cognitive fallacies outlined by Wilke and Mata (2012) might impede your growth? What active steps might you take to recognize and combat such fallacious forms of thinking?

link to Wilke and Mata (2012)

https://adweb.clarkson.edu/~awilke/Research_files/EoHB_Wilke_12.pdf

Answer 1

People are normally good on their own but as they grow, they will learn ways that being in some discrimination and illogical thoughts, perceptions, behaviours towards people, things and events. Few of the cognitive biases that I will develop are confirmation bias that explains the concept that one will choose information selectively depending on one's existing knowledge, beliefs and attitudes, fundamental attribution error that explains the fact that one would emphasise on personal factors and give least importance to situational factors, in-group bias that suggests that people act in favour of others who they think belong to and finally mere exposure effect which explains the tenancy to prefer familiar things and avoid things that are new and challenging.
I would like to understand the fact that people are different, thus they will have different preferences and opinions which I should respect. I should look for the real message in a communication by not selecting what I believe and like thus looking at the entire picture. I would treat everyone with respect and not just those who I think belong to me and would favour me. Finally, I will overcome my fear of failure, fear of new things and new challenges by giving it a try.