Question

Belief perseverance: The tendency to stick with an initial judgment even in the face of new information that should prompt us to reconsider.

Confirmation bias: The tendency to interpret new information as confirmation of one's existing beliefs or theories and to reject evidence that contradicts their opinions.

What are some ways in which belief perseverance and confirmation bias might apply to our self-schemas? To receive full credit, you need to address both concepts in your discussion post. You can provide an explanation, examples, or both. Think creatively about any ways these concepts might apply to or impact our self-schemas!

Answer 1

Answer:
confirmation bias & belief perseverance are generally used as analogous or synonyms to each other but they are different.
Confirmation bias is the tendency to observe, analyze, interpret and learn or memorize the information according to their belief. On the other hand belief, perseverance is referred to that state when an individual stick to his belief even it is proven incorrect. A
Belief perseverance shows the tendency of humans to ignore any idea, concept, theories that contradict their beliefs. For example, a person is denying to change his belief even you provide scientific and other evidence that proves him wrong and continues his belief like smoking is injurious to health but he denies to that.
Several experiments have been done to study these concepts.