The Tendency to Search for Information That Confirms One's Preconceptions

question 47

Multiple Choice

The tendency to search for information that confirms one's preconceptions has been labelled as

• A)the overconfidence phenomenon.
• B)the confirmation bias.
• C)a heuristic.
• D)an implicit attitude.

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Definitions:

Population Variance

A measure of the spread of a population’s values, indicating how much the individuals within the population differ from the population mean.

Chi-Squared Distributed

Referring to a statistical distribution that is used to describe the distribution of the sum of squares of a set of variables, often used in hypothesis testing.

T-Distribution

A statistical distribution that occurs when calculating the average of a population with a normal distribution, under conditions where the sample size is small and the population's variance is not known.

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities that can vary in a statistical calculation.