A confirmation bias refers to people's tendency to
a. agree with others whose attitudes differ from theirs.
b. behave according to others' expectations.
c. seek, interpret, and create information that verifies existing beliefs.
d. reinterpret earlier information to make it more consistent with subsequent information.
c
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People hear a tone, followed by a puff of air to the eyes, which causes an eyeblink. After a few pairings, people blink their eyes when they hear the tone. In this experiment, what is blinking?
a. The conditioned stimulus b. The unconditioned stimulus c. Both the conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus d. Both the conditioned response and the unconditioned response
Children's development occurs in a(n) ____ manner
a. mostly random b. strictly organized c. strictly hierarchical d. organized and hierarchical
The sequence in which language development occurs depends on the language spoken
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
B. F. Skinner argued that all behavior could be understood in terms of
a. an organism's internal mental states. b. genetic predetermination. c. simple forms of learning from environmental stimuli. d. an interaction between motivation and personality.