A counselor makes the inferential error of confirmatory bias when he
a. is exposed to a powerful experience that keeps a certain point of view in his mind and then he interprets clients’ problems from that point of view, whether it is appropriate or not.
b. is overly influenced by his own experiences when making assumptions about clients
c. tends to notice things that support his hypotheses and ignore things that disprove his hypotheses.
d. gets hung up on one hypothesis about the root of a client’s problem, resulting in missing important information offered by the client.
e. assumes occurrences are causally associated when they happened at the same time simply by chance.
Answer: c
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