In her research, Professor Kyoto seeks to identify circumstances in which confirmation bias is especially likely to impede effective problem solving. Which specialty area does her research best represent? a. biological psychology.b. developmental psychology.c. personality psychology.d. cognitive psychology.
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Professor Kyoto's research best represents d. cognitive psychology. Cognitive psychology is the branch of psychology that studies mental processes including how people think, perceive, remember, and learn. As part of this field, cognitive psychologists examine how people acquire, process, and store information. Confirmation bias, which is the tendency people have to favor information that confirms their preconceptions or hypotheses, regardless of whether the information is true, directly relates to the processing of information and decision making, topics central to cognitive psychology.