CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -the tendency to be influenced by one’s knowledge about the world in evaluating conclusions and to accept them as true because they are believable rather than because they are logically valid.

Detailed explanation-3: -Belief bias is the tendency in syllogistic reasoning to rely on prior beliefs rather than to fully obey logical principles.

Detailed explanation-4: -Belief bias is closely related to confirmation bias. The two are distinct, however, in that belief bias occurs when a person incorrectly assesses an argument’s conclusion, whereas confirmation bias occurs when a person actively seeks out information to confirm what they already believe.