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5 Cards in this Set
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Overestimating the frequency of vivid or easily recalled events
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Availability bias
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Estimating the probability of disease by judging how similar it is to a diagnostic category and ignoring known base rates
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Representative bias
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Post-test probabilities being sensitive to the starting point and the shift in probability needed to reach diagnostic certainty
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Anchoring and adjustment
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Least reliable approach to making diagnoses- involves making decisions based on partial evidence as a result of using rules of thumb
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Heuristics or Opinion revision
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The gold start level of decision making. This involves a logical sequencing of establishing and testing hypotheses about the nature of the diagnosis. Ways of doing things are established, tested and when failed replaced by other methods until a final correct method is established
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Hypothesis Testing
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