The research on logical reasoning shows that the confirmation bias is especially likely to operate when the participants

a. are working on an ecologically valid task, rather than a task in the psychology laboratory.
b. use a diagram to solve the problem, rather than solving it "in their heads."
c. are working on a task that focuses on arbitrary stimuli, rather than on human interactions.
d. rely too heavily on bottom-up processes.


Ans: c

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