Question 12 pts
What is confirmation bias?
The tendency to look for the information that supports your views and to ignore the rest |
The tendency to dismiss what you disagree with and accept what you agree with |
The tendency to view the world through the filter of your own world view |
All of the above |
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Question 22 pts
Even your memories are affected by confirmation bias. You recall those things which support your beliefs and forget about those things that do not support your beliefs.
True |
False |
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Question 32 pts
What is the point of the number game that was discussed in the article?
Many students are number-phobic |
People are often better at scientific methods than they give themselves credit for |
People work to prove their theories, they don't tend to work to disprove their theories. |
None of the above |
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Question 42 pts
According to the article, the main reason pundits like Rachel Maddow, Anne Coulter, Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly are so popular is that people tune in to have their beliefs confirmed.
True |
False |
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Question 52 pts
Which of the following is an example of the confirmation bias:
finding positive evidence online that the moon landing was faked. |
seeing your car model everywhere on the road |
reading a horoscope and seeing how it matches you exactly |
all of the above. |
Ans 12.(d) all of the above
Ans 22. True
Ans 52. (d) all of the above
The explanation for the above three answers is as follows:
Confirmation bias refers to a tendency to search for, interpret, favour, and recall information in a way that confirms one's pre-existing beliefs or hypotheses. For example, when we recall or gather information selectively, or when we tend to interpret facts in a biased way. Confirmation bias is seen more strongly with emotionally charged issues and for deep-seated beliefs. This occurs at the level of cognition and hence considered as a type of cognitive bias.
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