Although a particular medicine is no more effective than a placebo, a physician remembers cases when patients improved, and therefore considers the medicine effective. What tendency is occurring here?
a. Functional fixedness
b. Maximizing strategy
c. Confirmation bias
d. The framing effect
c
Psychology
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
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