Multiple Choice
A graduate student in clinical psychology hypothesizes that his/her client suffers from panic disorder.The graduate student asks in-depth questions about this diagnosis,but less detailed questions about other possibilities.By failing to gather information that could refute or temper the strength of this hypothesis,the graduate student is engaging in a(n) :
A) availability heuristic.
B) hindsight bias.
C) confirmatory bias.
D) affect heuristic.
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