Suppose That Joseph Brown Is a U

Multiple Choice

Suppose that Joseph Brown is a U.S. diplomat who works in Country X, and he is trying to assess whether Country X poses a threat to the United States. The diplomat gathers evidence that Country X poses a threat, but he does not try to gather evidence that Country X does not pose a threat. This error is called

A) the failure to transfer knowledge to a new task.
B) the belief-bias effect.
C) the anchoring-and-adjustment heuristic.
D) the confirmation bias.