Our Tendency to Notice Confirming Instances but Not Disconfirming Instances

question 11

Multiple Choice

Our tendency to notice confirming instances but not disconfirming instances of an expected relationship contributes to

• A)illusory correlation.
• B)perceptual connectivity.
• C)the attention heuristic.
• D)the ultimate attribution error.

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Definitions:

Bootstrap

A statistical method that involves resampling with replacement from a dataset to assess variability in a statistic.

Permutation

A permutation is an arrangement of all or part of a set of objects, with regard to the order of the arrangement.

Income

Financial gain accumulated over a period, such as wages from employment, profits from investments, or returns from assets.

Bootstrap Confidence Interval

A method for estimating the confidence interval of a parameter by resampling with replacement from an original dataset and calculating the interval from the bootstrap samples.