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    The typical decision making process and that well-structured with the five processes is based on a special purposeful search by the customer. Once the problem has been recognized, customers need to acquire adequate information to resolve it. Information search is the process by customer surveys their environment for appropriate data to make a reasonable decision. The search process that consumer might follow for products category like in this case household appliance and perfumes, is different from

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    and behavioural ethics, which help answering how and why they have those ethical or unethical decisions. Some people followed reasonability set by their close ones or society, even though they have own well-intentioned standards, called conformity bias. Particularly, they are tendencies of having similar behaviours or actions with the group under influence of group norm despite the contrary to their own judgment (Asch 1956). Another possibilities could be influence

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    possible find it in their conscience to be alright with slavery? Easy, we just have to look at a few main cognitive biases, such as selective perception, the ostrich effect, the choice-supportive bias, the confirmation bias, the bandwagon effect, an availability heuristic, and most of all in this case, the conservatism bias. Not only have we these seven biases affecting the conscientious decisions of the people at this time, but there was also the notion that, since they believed that their captives

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    variable and depended on the variable for showing the theory which is consistent is counterfactual thinking, Network theory, mood memory, primacy effect, fatigue, and Hindsight Bias. Hindsight Bias theory implies that everything is remembered. On another hand, heuristic, youth Bias, false memory syndrome and choice-supportive bias were not used (Changing minds, 2016). • Dependent and independent variable A dependent and the independent variable of psychology are different. Independent variable means

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    news sources were quick to report on this event. However, some news sources have spun the story in certain ways in order to fit their agenda. The New York Times and Fox News both twist this event to appeal to certain audiences using bias by headline, omission, and choice of words while the Kaiser Family Foundation stays neutral. Mass communication outlets have become fundamental parts of modern society in the recent years. Americans rely on these media outlets to stay updated on the worlds issues

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    prediction of the study involved omission bias, and it was hypothesized that this bias would be present and conserved throughout development; however, the results only found the bias to be present in four to five year olds. The bias was not observed among the adults, since a surprising portion rated the omission of an action as bad. The nature of the latter finding is unexpected since previous research has implicated the opposite trend, and has found omission bias to exist among adults (Powell, Derbyshire

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    Self-Ownership And Memory

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    self-relevant objects, we can produce a conscious experience of ownership and develop our extended self (Cunningham, Turk, Macdonald, & Neil Macrae, 2008). Two comparable effects, the ‘endowment effect’ and the ‘mere ownership effect’, explain the cognitive bias on self-relevant objects. The former maintains that self-owned objects elicit more worth, while the later suggests that self-owned objects are more desirable (Kim & Johnson, 2012). Self-relevant objects appear to yield a significant advantage in recognition

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    During the course of the last eight weeks, our class has investigated the nature and approaches of qualitative research. Through individual study and group collaboration, we have navigated a deep topic of engagement that has shaped my perspective of future research and inquiry. Through this process I have discovered the importance of collaboration; the relationship between one’s biases, frameworks, and methodology; the importance of credibility and validity, and the nature in which one’s collaborative

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    Confirmation Bias – Because of which we tend to be willing to gather facts that support certain conclusions but disregard other facts that support different conclusions. Individuals who are highly defensive in this manner show significantly greater left prefrontal cortex activity as measured by EEG than do less defensive individuals. Selective perception – Due to which we, out of prejudice, actively screen-out information that we do not think is important. Source credibility bias – Because of which

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    Self determination theory coaching which is focused on needs based theory. As like all the plants needs nutrition to live psychologically human needs nutriments such as competency, people need to feel competent at some stage, autonomy, need sense of choice and relatedness, need positive relationships with someone (Spence & Oades, 2011). There’s two types of motivation, intrinsic motivation which is doing it for own sake and extrinsic motivation which

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