Question

If you just bought a Honda Accord and you believe it is the best car on the market, then you'll naturally read any article you come across that praises the car. Meanwhile, if another magazine lists a different car as the best pick of the year, you simply dismiss it and assume that the editors of that particular magazine got it wrong or were looking for something different than what you were looking for in a car. Which of the following best applies to the thinking described above? 1. Anchoring& adjustment theory 2. Availability heuristic 3. Default heuristic 4. Confirmation bias 5. Hindsight bias

Answer 1

The answer is four: 4. Confirmation bias

Step-by-step explanation:

Confirmation bias is defined as a tendency to search for and interpret, favor, and rememeberl information so that one's previous beliefs are confirmed. Confirmation bias is a type of cognitive bias and people who demostrate it show bias when they gather, recall or interpret information in biased way. Here one refuses to admit that another car is better since that would clash with their conviction that their choice is the best one.