Question

1 SandraDee strongly believes that attending daycare is detrimental to children’s development so she decides to write her psychology term paper on this topic. She does a literature search and finds several sources supporting her opinion, but she finds that the majority of research indicates that children attending daycare experience healthy development. She writes a paper using the sources that find negative associations with daycare attendance. This is an example of what?

Select one:

a. confirmation bias

b. confounding variable

c. correlational research

d. observer bias

2 Research shows that people who smoke cigarettes are more likely to get lung cancer than those who do not smoke. This research alone demonstrates what?

Select one:

a. smoking causes lung cancer

b. smoking contributes to lung cancer

c. there is a predisposition toward both smoking and lung cancer

d. there is a relationship between smoking and lung cancer

Answer 1

1. Sarah writing a paper using the sources that find negative associations with daycare attendance is an example of;

1. confirmation bias (As, she had a tendency to process information by looking for, or interpreting, information, consistent with her existing beliefs)

1. Research shows that people who smoke cigarettes are more likely to get lung cancer than those who do not smoke. This research alone demonstrates;

d. there is a relationship between smoking and lung cancer