Question

Fantasia believes that people with blue eyes are somehow more creative than other people. Whenever Fantasia encounters a person that has blue eyes and is creative, she places greater importance on this evidence supporting her already existing belief. At the same time, Fantasia ignores any evidence that people without blue eyes might display exceptional creativity. This is called a ___________.
A. confirmation bias
B. confirmation preconception
C. confirmation preference
D. confirmation prejudice

Answer 1

Answer:

A. confirmation bias

Explanation:

Fantasia is surely showing a confirmation bias:

This means that she already set the belief that people of blue eyes are more creative will guide her interaction with anyone.

Therefore she will insist on probing herself right when encountering someone with blue eyes, there she will try to measure the creativity somehow. While to the contrary she will forget or simply be unaware of the creativity present in people with other characteristics and having another eye colour.

Confirmation bias affects not only thinking but our need to search for something to prove it, and often contradictory evidence can be dismissed simply because our strong position will make us shorten our vision.

• Often we hear "expand your mind" which means that we should be open to believe or seek for new ideas often when we want to search for something and think for ourselves rather than relying in our pre-existing beliefs.