Question

__ is the tendency to seek out and give greater weight to information that supports one's initial hypothesis and to ignore contradictory information that supports alternative hypotheses or solutions.

Answer 1

The right answer is Confirmation Bias.

Confirmation bias is the tendency to seek out and give greater weight to information that supports one's initial hypothesis and to ignore contradictory information that supports alternative hypotheses or solutions.

Confirmation bias is a tendency during which a person is trying to find more grounds for him/her being right and is recalling and bring our as much information and arguments to prove to confirm his ideas/suggestions are more correct.