Confirmation bias. Once a decision is reached, there is a tendency to seek
evidence to support it.
Selectivity. Focus of attention on what is psychologically salient rather than
logically important.
Out of sight, out of mind. Only information which is readily available will be
used to evaluate the situation.
Encystment. The individual or the operating team become enmeshed in one
aspect of the problem to the exclusion of all other considerations.
Vagabonding. The individual gives his attention superficially to one problem
after another, without solving any of them.