Question

Mandy, a true believer in astrology, reads in her horoscope that today is her lucky day. She gets so excited that she spills coffee all over herself, necessitating a change of clothes. As a result, she is late for work and for a very important meeting, which in turn gets her into serious trouble with her boss. That evening, her brother is taken to the emergency department. On her way to visit him, Mandy finds a dime in the hospital parking lot. What does research on the confirmation bias suggest that Mandy will do?
A) Mandy will renounce astrology as completely wrong because of all the horrible things that happened on her "lucky day."B) Mandy will begin to question her belief in astrology because of all the horrible things that happened on her "lucky day."C) Mandy will forget finding the dime because of the all the horrible things that happened to her.D) Mandy will seize on the dime she found as evidence of astrology’s accuracy.

Answer 1

Answer:

Option D

Explanation:

• In psychology as well as in cognitive studies, confirmation bias (or corroborative inclination) is a propensity to scan for or decipher data in a manner that affirms one's biases, prompting factual blunders.  
• It is a sort of psychological predisposition and is representative of a mistake of inductive derivation towards affirmation of the speculation under investigation.
• In this bias, decision makers have been appeared to effectively search out and appoint more weight to prove that affirms their speculation, and overlook or under-weigh proof that could be a potential setback to their theory.
• It is significant in light of the fact that it might lead individuals to hold unequivocally to deceptions or to give more weight to data that supports their convictions than is justified by the proof.