The tendency to look for evidence in support of a belief and to ignore evidence that would disprove a belief is called the ______

a. availability heuristic c. confirmation bias
b. idealized cognitive model d. representativeness heuristic

C

Psychology

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While Type I schizophrenia is dominated by ______ symptoms, Type II schizophrenia is dominated by ______ symptoms.

A) alogia; avolition B) negative; positive C) positive; negative D) negative; catatonia

Psychology

Most standardized tests of intelligence have a distribution of scores that _____

a) follows the normal curve. b) has a positive skew. c) has a negative skew. d) appears bimodal with two peaks of high frequency.

Psychology