- Recency, Availability, and Related Biases
- Confirmation Bias
- Framing effect
- Selection Bias
- Anchoring Bias
- Clustering Illusion
- Empathy gap
- Observer Expectancy Effect
- Halo effect

Examples of Cognitive Limitations

Self-reporting requires a certain level of trust in participants capability to understand themselves and their thoughts.

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- Cognitive Processes
- Gap between experiences and language
- Language Barrier

Why Language is a major limitation of Qualitative Data

Polkinghorne, Donald. (2005). Language and Meaning: Data Collection in Qualitative Research. Journal of Counseling Psychology. 52. 137-145. 10.1037/0022-0167.52.2.137. 

Language and Meaning: Data Collection in Qualitative Research

There is a gap between experiences and language used to describe these experiences, because it is hard to explain memories that are mostly comprised of visual images. Therefore there is a need for "metaphors and narratives" to closely illustrate an experience.

Gap between experiences and language

Cognitive Processes limitation of Qualitative 

Can be hard if participant and researcher do not share the same first language and translation between languages can cause for meanings to be lost.

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