Question

sandra strongly believes that attending daycare is detrimental to children’s development so she decides to write her psychology term paper on this topic. she does a literature search and finds several sources supporting her opinion, but she finds that the majority of research indicates that children attending daycare experience healthy development. she writes a paper using the sources that find negative associations with daycare attendance. this is an example of ______.

observer bias

confirmation bias

correlational research

confounding variable

Explanation:

• Observer bias is about the observer's influence on data collection, not relevant here.
• Confirmation bias is when one seeks/uses information that confirms pre - existing beliefs. Sandra used only sources that supported her belief about daycare being detrimental, ignoring the majority of research that said otherwise.
• Correlational research is about studying relationships between variables, not what's happening here.
• Confounding variable is an extraneous variable affecting research, not related to Sandra's action.

Answer:

B. confirmation bias