Introduction to Psychology 10th Edition by Rod Plotnik,Haig Kouyoumdjian

Exercise 9

A statement that supports a particular viewpoint and is based on a person's own experience is called a (a) _____, which has two potential sources of error and bias. First, strongly held personal beliefs may bias an individual's (b) _____ of events. Second, believing strongly that something will happen and then unknowingly acting in such a way as to make that something occur can cause an error called a (c) _____. This source of error is one of the major reasons that people believe that (d) _____ are true.