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| Incomplete or unrepresentative |
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| willingness to base conclusions on ___ is a common cause of people's questionable and erroneous beliefs. |
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| Many of the beliefs we hold are about __ between two variables. |
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| ___ is easier to deal with cognitively |
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| variables in which one level of the variable is simply the absence of the other. |
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| variables in which both levels are defined by the presence of some attribute or set of attributes. |
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| The influence of confirmatory information is particularly strong when both variables are asymmetric because in such cases three of the four cells contain information about the __ of one of the variables. |
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| Tendency to Seek Confirmatory Information |
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| People exhibit a parallel tendency to focus on positive or confirming instances when they gather, rather than simply evaluate, information relevant to a given hypothesis. |
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| we accept what we observe at face value, with little consideration of how things might have been different if we had acted differently |
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| For a prophecy to be self-fulfilling there must be some mechanism that translates the expectation into ____. |
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| True self-fulfilling prophecy |
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| A person's expectation elicits the very behavior that was originally anticipated. |
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| Seemingly-fulfilled prophecy |
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expectations that alter another person's world, or limit another's responses, in such a way that it is difficult or impossible for the expectations to be disconfirmed.
- the target has little opportunity to disconfirm the expectancy. |
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