GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
COGNITION AND EMOTIONS
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Question
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is the belief that the odds of a chance event increase if the event hasn’t occurred recently
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is the tendency to only seek information that is likely to support one’s decisions and beliefs
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refers to when people’s belief about whether an outcome will occur changes. depending on how alternative outcomes are distributed, even though the summed probability of the alternative outcomes is held constant
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refers to how decision issues are posed, and how choices are structured
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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 the tendency to seek out and prefer information that supports our preexisting beliefs. As a result, we tend to ignore any information that contradicts those beliefs.
Detailed explanation-3: -For example, imagine that a person believes left-handed people are more creative than right-handed people. Whenever this person encounters a person that is both left-handed and creative, they place greater importance on this “evidence” that supports what they already believe.