Perception shortcut

Perception shortcut (hereinafter, the Shortcut) is a shorter alternative route in cognitive processing.

Related concepts

Bias. A tendency or preference toward a particular perspective or ideology.
Hindsight bias. The tendency to believe falsely, after an outcome of an event is actually known, that one would have accurately predicted that outcome.
Anchoring bias. A tendency to fixate on initial information, from which one then falls to adequately adjust for subsequent information.
Availability bias. The tendency for people to base their judgments on information that is readily available to them.
Assumed similarity. The assumption that others are like oneself.
Randomness error. The tendency of individuals to believe that they can predict the outcomes of random events.
Halo effect. The tendency to draw a general impression about an individual on the basis of a single characteristic.
Contrast effect. Evaluation of a person's characteristics that is affected by comparisons with other people recently encountered who rank higher or lower on the same characteristics.
Illusory correlation. The tendency of people to associate two events when in reality there is no connection.