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 ________.
a. confirmation bias
b. observer bias
c. confounding variable
d. correlational research

Answer 1

I believe the answer is: A. confirmation bias.
Confirmation bias tend to happen if we keep surrounding ourselves only with the same people who held a certain similarities.Because of confirmation bias, we tend to be determined to seek our news from one specific resource that we know always support our view.