Question

When two friends, who support two different political parties, only quote statistics that support their favorite political party’s strengths but not its weaknesses, which type of perception do they demonstrate?

Group of answer choices

Selective retention

Selective exposure

Selective distortion

Selective perception

Answer 1

Selective perception is defined as a process by which an individual perceives what he or she wants and ignores the negative or opposing points. In the provided case, two friends quote those statistics that support their political parties and ignore the ones that show the weaknesses of the political party they support, Hence, they are involved in selective perception. Therefore, the correct option is (D). All other options are wrong as none of them matches the situation discussed in the question.