Suppose That Joseph Brown Is a U

question 52

Multiple Choice

Suppose that Joseph Brown is a U.S. diplomat who works in Country X, and he is trying to assess whether Country X poses a threat to the United States. The diplomat gathers evidence that Country X poses a threat, but he does not try to gather evidence that Country X does not pose a threat. This error is called

• A) the failure to transfer knowledge to a new task.
• B) the belief-bias effect.
• C) the anchoring-and-adjustment heuristic.
• D) the confirmation bias.

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