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On an application a potential employee describes herself as friendly. In talking with references, before you meet her, you ask questions that probe for information that this expectation is correct. You are engaging in:_________.

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Group of options were omitted which include

A. the fundamental attribution error.

B. the primacy effect.

C. confirmation bias.

D. self-monitoring

Answer: CONFIRMATION BIAS -- C

Step-by-step explanation:

Confirmation bias is a cognitive bias of a psychological phenomena whereby people seek information to support their initial opinions while disregarding any other opposing data that contradicts their opinions or beliefs

In the question above, you are engaging in Confirmation bias when you only search for information that aligns with your known beliefs from the application that the potential employee is friendly that is why you only probe for information that will correlate with the belief

Generally, In the society People are selective when gathering information and tend to seek only information and sources that agree with their personal beliefs, which explains why people do not behave rationally and remain ignorant as they tend to be comfortable with only the beliefs they have.

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