________ 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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Fill in the blank with correct word
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a. a repeated measures design c. a correlated measures design b. a replicated measures design d. all of these
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