Activity for the book My Psychology

Chapter App 7.1 Confirmation Bias

Use your experience with the app in Chapter App: 7.1 Confirmation Bias or view this video overview to answer the questions.

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Perspecs gives readers access to multiple sides of an issue, providing them with a wide range of information that can be used for problem solving and decision making. The process by which the brain understands, organizes, analyzes, and communicates information is called .
Victor is a politics junkie, but he limits his reading to his favorite news outlets and only reads opinions and perspectives from writers that he tends to agree with. Which problem-solving error does Victor’s behavior describe?
By presenting issues in the form of a question, Perspecs runs the risk of committing what problem-solving error, in which a reader might be influenced by the way in which a question is presented?
Which of the following statements would best be described as a mental set error?
Amina is on Perspecs, reading competing articles on gun control. Amina strongly supports gun ownership rights and tends to disagree with gun control measures. This tendency represents which form of heuristic?