If a motorcycle cop believes that young female drivers speed more than other drivers, he will likely notice young female drivers speeding in the fast lane but fail to notice young male or older drivers doing the same. In this case, the police officer's judgments are biased by the operation of the A. permission schema.B. confirmation bias.C. falsification principle.D. typicality principle.
Social Studies · High School · Tue Nov 03 2020
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B. confirmation bias.
- Confirmation bias is the tendency to notice, interpret, and remember information in a way that confirms one's preconceptions or hypotheses, while giving disproportionately less attention to information that contradicts them. In the scenario you described, the motorcycle cop has a pre-existing belief that young female drivers speed more than other drivers. Therefore, he is more likely to notice instances that confirm this belief (young female drivers speeding) and less likely to pay attention to cases that would disprove it (young male and older drivers speeding). This selective attention reinforces his initial belief, even if it is not supported by the actual distribution of speeding among different groups of drivers.