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The Tendency to Look for Evidence Supporting One Particular Hypothesis

Question 214

Question 214

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The tendency to look for evidence supporting one particular hypothesis and not considering other possibilities is known as the


A) availability heuristic.
B) base-rate error.
C) confirmation bias.
D) framing effect.

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