Question

Sandra strongly believes that attending daycare is detrimental to children's development so she decides to write her psychology term paper on this topic. she does a literature search and finds several sources supporting her opinion, but she finds that the majority of research indicates that children attending daycare experience healthy development. she writes a paper using the sources that find negative associations with daycare attendance. this is an example of ________.

a. confirmation bias
b. observer bias
c. confounding variable
d. correlational research

Answer 1

The correct answer is confirmation bias.

Step-by-step explanation:

The correct answer is a. confirmation bias. Confirmation bias is the tendency to seek out and accept information that supports or confirms preexisting beliefs while ignoring or dismissing information that challenges those beliefs. In this scenario, Sandra only uses sources that confirm her belief that attending daycare is detrimental to children's development, despite the majority of research indicating the opposite. By doing so, she is exhibiting confirmation bias.

Answer 2

I believe the answer is: A. confirmation bias.
Confirmation bias tend to happen if we keep surrounding ourselves only with the same people who held a certain similarities.Because of confirmation bias, we tend to be determined to seek our news from one specific resource that we know always support our view.