A counselor makes the inferential error of confirmatory bias when he
a. is exposed to a powerful experience that keeps a certain point of view in his mind and then he interprets clients problems from that point of view, whether it is appropriate or not.
b. is overly influenced by his own experiences when making assumptions about clients
c. tends to notice things that support his hypotheses and ignore things that disprove his hypotheses.
d. gets hung up on one hypothesis about the root of a clients problem, resulting in missing important information offered by the client.
e. assumes occurrences are causally associated when they happened at the same time simply by chance.
Question 2
A counselor makes the inferential error of availability heuristic when she
a. uses only one treatment approach for each DSM diagnosis.
b. is exposed to a powerful experience that keeps a certain point of view in her mind and then she interprets clients problems from that point of view, whether it is appropriate or not.
c. is overly influenced by her own experiences when making assumptions about clients.
d. subscribes to only one psychological theory regardless of the clients presenting problem.
e. gets hung up on one hypothesis about the root of a clients problem, resulting in missing important information offered by the client.
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