CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

COGNITION AND EMOTIONS

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Confirmation bias refers to the tendency to:
A
Allow preexisting beliefs to distort logicalreasoning
B
Cling to one’s initial conceptions after thebasis on which they were formed has been discredited
C
Search randomly through alternative solutionswhen problem solving
D
Look for information that isconsistent with one’s beliefs
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -confirmation bias, people’s tendency to process information by looking for, or interpreting, information that is consistent with their existing beliefs. This biased approach to decision making is largely unintentional, and it results in a person ignoring information that is inconsistent with their beliefs.

Detailed explanation-2: -Confirmation bias is a well-characterized phenomenon: the tendency to search for or interpret information in a way that confirms one’s preconceptions.

Detailed explanation-3: -Confirmation bias is our tendency to cherry-pick information that confirms our existing beliefs or ideas. Confirmation bias explains why two people with opposing views on a topic can see the same evidence and come away feeling validated by it.

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.

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