CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Confirmation bias was first described by Peter Wason (1960), who asked participants in an experiment to guess at a rule about number triples. The participants were told that the sequence 2-4-6 fit that rule. They could generate their own triples and they would get feedback on whether or not their triple fit the rule.

Detailed explanation-2: -Confirmation bias, a phrase coined by English psychologist Peter Wason, is the tendency of people to favor information that confirms or strengthens their beliefs or values and is difficult to dislodge once affirmed.

Detailed explanation-3: -In the Wason selection task confirmation bias is manifested in this way. Participants know that the rule might be right, so they select only the cards that seem to confirm the rule because they already have half of the confirmation (letter or the number that are related to the rule).

Detailed explanation-4: -Background of the Study Peter Wason conducted series of experiments in the 1960s to demonstrate that people are indeed biased towards confirming their existing beliefs.