When People Seek Information to Support Their Point of View

question 80

Multiple Choice

When people seek information to support their point of view and discount data that do not,this is ______ bias.

• A)blind
• B)overconfidence
• C)confirmation
• D)representativeness
• E)framing

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Definitions:

Parental Supervision

Involves monitoring and guiding children's activities, ensuring their safety and proper upbringing.

Superego

In Freudian psychoanalysis, the part of the personality that acts as a moral center, guiding behavior by internalizing societal and parental standards of right and wrong.

Preconscious Mind

Part of the mind that contains information not currently in consciousness but can be easily accessed and brought into awareness.

Id

In psychoanalytic theory, the part of the psyche that is the source of instinctual impulses and demands for immediate satisfaction of basic needs.