Question

Carmela believes her assistant, Lian, is incompetent. She notices only what Lian does wrong while ignoring the above average quality of most of her work. This exemplifies ________ bias.
a. anchoring.
b. confirmation.
c. hindsight.
d. representational.

Answer 1

Answer:

b. confirmation.

Explanation:

Confirmation bias: In psychology, the term confirmation bias is also known as confirmatory bias. It is defined as the tendency of the human being to grasp, favor, recall, interpret, and search for a piece of particular information in such a way that can strengthen and confirm his or her preconceptions, hypothesis, and personal beliefs that can often lead to a statistical error. Confirmation bias is considered as one of the cognitive biases.

In reference to the question, this exemplifies confirmation bias.