Francisco, a soccer enthusiast, watches a soccer match. While discussing the match with his friends, he is able to remember the
first and the last players to receive a yellow card from the referee but not the other players who received yellow cards in the middle of the match. This tendency of Francisco to recall only the first and the last players to receive a yellow card best illustrates:________.
Amnesia is a memory loss disorder. It is an inability of a person to recall the events that occurred in a period of time. This occurs due to brain injury, drugs, alcohol, or mental illness. This may also occur due to stress, lack of sleep and ageing.
In the given situation, Francisco only remembers the first and last player who received the yellow card. The other players were not registered in his mind due to memory loss affected by amnesia.
This is a type of cognitive bias and it involves people justifying their standpoint or beliefs about a certain topic by looking out for informations that strengthens such beliefs or bias. For example a Christian believer would always defend his religion and show some level of bias to other religions.
