CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

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 (also known as conceptual conservatism) is maintaining a belief despite new information that firmly contradicts it. Such beliefs may even be strengthened when others attempt to present evidence debunking them, a phenomenon known as the backfire effect (compare boomerang effect).

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: -One process that leads to belief perseverance is the availability heuristic, which people use to determine how likely an event or behavior might be based on how easily they can think of past examples.