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    The Tendency to Prefer Information That Supports What You Thought
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The Tendency to Prefer Information That Supports What You Thought

Question 17

Question 17

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The tendency to prefer information that supports what you thought or believed in the first place is called:


A) confirmation bias.
B) the availability heuristic.
C) framing.
D) the representativeness heuristic.

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