Question

One of the reasons Bernard Madoff got away with his Ponzi scheme for so long is that his investors saw him as a friend and used ____ to disregard questionable behavior.

a. stereotyping
b. attribution
c. racism
d. selective perception
e. sexism

Answer 1

Selective perception

Step-by-step explanation:

Selective perception as the name indicated to perceive the selected things and ignore others. In other words, we can say that a person perceives those things that he wanted or desire to perceive things. On the other hand, the person ignores those things that undesirable for him.

Many factors influence a person's selective perception.

• Previous experience
• Motivation
• Emotions

There are of two types of selective perception such as

• Selective perception defense

• Selective perception vigilance.

Thus in the above statement, Bernard Madoff got away with his Ponzi scheme and the investor used selective perception for him.