Confirmation Bias Is

question 139

Multiple Choice

Confirmation bias is:

• A) the tendency to be more positive than negative when processing social input.
• B) the tendency to process information to conform to what we desire and expect.
• C) a form of prejudice based on familiarity with outgroup members.
• D) an automatically higher level of agreement with everything that is being said to one at the moment.

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Definitions:

Conservation

The principle (which Piaget believed to be a part of concrete operational reasoning) that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects.

Maturation

The process of becoming mature, which involves the growth and development of an organism or human from infancy to adulthood.

Assimilation

In psychology, the cognitive process of fitting new information into existing cognitive schemas, perceptions, and understanding.

Accommodation

In cognitive psychology, the process of modifying existing cognitive schemas, perceptions, and understanding to incorporate new information.