________ is the tendency to seek out and give greater weight to information that supports one's initial hypothesis and to ignore contradictory information that supports alternative hypotheses or solutions.

A. A mental set
B. Confirmation bias
C. Representativeness heuristic
D. Functional fixedness


Answer: B

Psychology

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