GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
COGNITION AND EMOTIONS
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Question
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Fixed Mindset
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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: -Confirmation bias refers to the tendency to: a. allow preexisting beliefs to distort logical reasoning. b. cling to one’s initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -*Belief perseverance-pg 82.-def: persistence of one’s initial conceptions, such as when the basis for one’s beliefs is discredited but an explanation of why that belief might be true survives.
Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Which of the following illustrates belief perseverance? Your belief remains intact even in the face of evidence to the contrary.