The tendency to seek only information that supports one's hypotheses is called
a. a mental set.
b. confirmation bias.
c. the syllogistic fallacy.
d. inductive reasoning.
e. deductive reasoning.
b. confirmation bias.
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a. discredit other professional's ideas. b. understand why someone has problems. c. separate symptoms from syndromes. d. apply their own feelings to a diagnosis.
The parents are trying to get their three-year-old daughter to go to bed without fussing, but sometimes they give in to her tears and let her stay up later. On the basis of the partial reinforcement effect, it can be expected that the child's fussing will
a. be difficult to stop. b. be easy to stop. c. disappear for a while, but then reappear. d. develop into a discriminative stimulus.
A physician wants to prevent a food aversion from developing in the normal diet of a patient who must have chemotherapy to treat cancer. What advice would you give to the physician?
a) Give chemotherapy after the patient eats a novel diet. b) Give chemotherapy before the patient eats a novel diet. c) Give chemotherapy after the patient eats the normal diet. d) Give chemotherapy before the patient eats the normal diet.
When girls experience menarche, most respond by
A) keeping it secret. B) telling their closest friend. C) telling their mother. D) telling their father.