Question

You liked most everything about your new roommate when you first met, but when you found out she smokes, that overshadowed all of her good qualities in your mind. What perception-making process are you displaying here? Group of answer choices

Answer 1

Negativity bias

Step-by-step explanation:

Negativity bias is a term in socio-psychology, which describes the tendency of an individual to give a negative interpretation of ambiguous stimuli or events.

Often referred to as Postitve-Negative Asymmetry or Negativity Effect, it means, as human, we often feel that things of rebuke or negative nature has a greater effect than on ones perception-making processes than neutral or positive things

Hence, in this case, the right answer is NEGATIVITY BIAS.