Randall believes that aliens are currently living deep under the ocean. When looking for information about this on the Internet, he ignores any sites that are skeptical of his belief and only visits sites that support his belief. This is an example of
a. functional fixedness.
b. confirmation bias.
c. creativity bias.
d. confirmation fixedness.
b
Psychology
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Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
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In studying the accuracy of eyewitness recall, Elizabeth Loftus (1975) used three sources of information in developing the idea to study the effects of misleading information on memory
1) everyday experience and knowledge; 2) prior research findings; and 3) a. existing theories. b. governmental data. c. case studies from the Internet. d. mathematical modeling.
Psychology