James spends months developing a theory of decision making. But in an experimental test, only half of the participants respond as his theory predicted. James concludes that the rest of the subjects did not understand the directions and proclaims that the experiment is evidence in favor of his theory. This is an example of the ____.
a. confirmation bias.
b. conversion effect.
c. eureka phenomenon.
d. gambler's fallacy
Question 2
Leslie visits her garden to discover that her tomatoes and beans have been eaten by an animal. Certain its a deer, she constructs a fence around the garden. A week later, the vegetables have been eaten again, so she installs an even taller fence. Leslie has not considered that an animal may be burrowing into her garden, likely because ____.
a. she has ascribed too much utility to her initial solution
b. an availability heuristic has blocked her from considering another hypothesis
c. she did not apply logic before problem-solving
d. her original proposition was based on a false premise
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