Problem:
Choice 1: Men are from Earth, Women are from Earth
(a) How does cognitive bias contribute to the widespread, commonsense, and exaggerated perception that there are more differences than similarities between the sexes. In other words, demonstrate how confirmation bias, the availability heuristic, the illusory correlation, the fundamental attribution error, or some other cognitive error - contributes to the widespread and mistaken belief that men and women are far more different than they are similar (i.e., the mistaken belief that men are from Mars and Women are from Venus). Need Assignment Help?
(b) Describe the process by which someone who believes that men and women are different from one another could use cognitive biases to "support" their position (i.e., give an example and explain why the cognitive error is problematic in their thinking and reasoning. Be specific and use the language and concepts from the specific cognitive bias to demonstrate the process involved in maintaining a view of gender differentiation.