AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Confirmation bias is the tendency to seek out and attribute weight to pieces of evidence that support the hypothesis and ignore evidence which disproves it. It also manifests itself in the tendency to interpret ambiguous evidence as supportive of one’s own hypothesis.

Detailed explanation-2: -Alternative hypothesis: Confirmation bias occurs when people tend to look for information that is confirming their beliefs/hypothesis, but this bias can be reduced by taking into alternative hypotheses and their consequences.

Detailed explanation-3: -Confirmation bias (or confirmatory bias) has also been termed myside bias. “Congeniality bias” has also been used.

Detailed explanation-4: -A confirmation bias is a type of cognitive bias that involves favoring information that confirms previously existing beliefs or biases. For example, imagine that a person holds a belief that left-handed people are more creative than right-handed people.