According to Your Authors,________ Is the "Mother of All Biases

question 144

Multiple Choice

According to your authors,________ is the "mother of all biases."

• A)the availability heuristic
• B)belief perseverance
• C)confirmation bias
• D)the hindsight bias

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Definitions:

Balance

The state of equilibrium or equipoise; in psychology, it often refers to mental or emotional stability.

Entropy Principle

A tendency toward balance or equilibrium within the personality; the ideal is an equal distribution of psychic energy over all structures of the personality.

Psychic Energy

A Freudian concept referring to the energy generated by innate drives and instincts, which powers the mind and motivates behavior.

Collective Unconscious

The deepest level of the psyche containing the accumulation of inherited experiences of human and pre-human species.