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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