What Is the Confirmation Bias

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Multiple Choice

What is the confirmation bias?

• A) people's tendency to agree with others whose attitudes differ from theirs
• B) people's tendency to behave according to others' expectations
• C) people's tendency to reinterpret earlier information to make it more consistent with subsequent information
• D) people's tendency to interpret,seek,and create information in ways that support existing beliefs

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Definitions:

Inhibitory Postsynaptic Potential

A type of synaptic potential that makes a postsynaptic neuron less likely to generate an action potential, effectively decreasing neuronal activity.

Temporal Summation

Summation of the local potential that results when two or more action potentials arrive at a single synapse in rapid succession.

Action Potentials

Electrical impulses that travel along the membrane of a neuron signaling the cell to perform its function.

Synapse

The junction between two nerve cells, where electrical signals are transmitted from one neuron to another.