Question

Sandra strongly believes that attending daycare is detrimental to children’s development so she decides to write her psychology term paper on this topic. She does a literature search and finds several sources supporting her opinion, but she finds that the majority of research indicates that children attending daycare experience healthy development. She writes a paper using the sources that find negative associations with daycare attendance. This is an example of ________.

Answer 1

Answer:

Sandra strongly believes that attending daycare is detrimental to children’s development so she decides to write her psychology term paper on this topic. She does a literature search and finds several sources supporting her opinion, but she finds that the majority of research indicates that children attending daycare experience healthy development. She writes a paper using the sources that find negative associations with daycare attendance. This is an example of confirmation bias

Explanation:

Confirmation Bias : Actively seek out data that support our beliefs and actively disregard data that refuse our beliefs. It i basically the tendency to search for , interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one's beliefs or hypothesis , while giving disproportionatelyless consideration to alternative possibilities.

Hence ,this is an example of confirmation bias