The Tendency for a Decision Maker to Search for Confirmation

question 25

Multiple Choice

The tendency for a decision maker to search for confirmation that a recent decision he or she made was a good decision represents which one of the following characteristics?

• A)overconfidence
• B)overoptimism
• C)affect heuristic
• D)confirmation bias
• E)representativeness heuristic

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Definitions:

Long-Term Retention

Long-term retention is the continued storage of information over an extended period, allowing it to be recalled later.

Testing Effect

The phenomenon that long-term memory is increased when some of the learning period is devoted to retrieving the to-be-remembered information through testing with proper feedback.

Information-Processing Model

A cognitive approach that likens the mind to a computer, emphasizing how information is inputted, stored, and retrieved.

Neural Networks

Computational models designed to simulate the way human brains operate, used in machine learning and artificial intelligence.