The tendency to notice information that confirms one's beliefs is called
What will be an ideal response?
confirmation bias
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Like almost 99 percent of their age peers, 30-year-olds Alan and Barb are cohabitating before getting married. Given this statistic, Alan and Barb most likely live in a. Australia
b. Sweden. c. Indonesia. d. Brazil.
In terms of the etiology of mood disorders, research has shown that a. environmental stress plays a larger role in causing depression in men than in women
b. genetic factors are more important in the development of depression in men in comparison to the development of depression in women. c. genetic and environmental factors are equally contributory to mood disorders. d. there are no sex differences in vulnerability to depression.
Which of the following approaches to psychology would probably be least concerned with unconscious processes?
a. psychoanalytic theory b. functionalism c. cognitive psychology d. behaviorism
Walking movements can be elicited in individuals paralyzed by spinal cord injury due to ______.
A. neural plasticity B. intact motor programs C. spinal cord regeneration D. central pattern generators