COGNITION
THINKING AND LANGUAGE
Question
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the representativeness heuristic.
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belief perseverance.
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confirmation bias.
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functional fixedness.
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Detailed explanation-1: -This best illustrates. Belief Perseverance. Maintaining one’s conceptions even after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited is known as: Syntax.
Detailed explanation-2: -Belief Bias: the tendency for one’s preexisting beliefs to distort logical reasoning, sometimes by making invalid conclusions seem valid, or valid conclusions seem invalid. Belief Perseverance: clinging to one’s initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited.
Detailed explanation-3: -An example of belief perseverance is a person who believes that smoking does not cause cancer despite the abundance of evidence that shows that smoking does cause cancer.
Detailed explanation-4: -Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms or supports one’s prior beliefs or values.
Detailed explanation-5: -Which of the following illustrates belief perseverance? Your belief remains intact even in the face of evidence to the contrary.