托福TPO32口语task4题目 Reading Part:
Choice-Supportive Bias
People often make decisions by considering the advantages and disadvantages of each option.
However, after a person selects an option, there is a tendency for that person to exhibit the choice- supportive bias. After selecting an option, a person may begin to favor that option. Without being fully aware of it, people who exhibit this bias tend to focus on and remember only the advantages of the option they selected. As time passes, they will overlook the option’s disadvantages, eventually even forgetting them.
托福TPO32口语task4题目 Listening Part:
Now listen to part of a lecture on this topic in a Psychology class.
(male professor) OK, so an example of this from my own life: five or six years ago, I was helping a friend of mine decide on a house to buy. He had been in the market to buy a house and he had it narrowed down to this one house that he was interested in.
What he really liked about this house was it had an excellent location. It was in a great place that was actually in the same part of town where he was working right up the street from his job. So he wouldn’t have far to drive to get to work which he really liked.
However, the downside of this house was that it was smaller than what he was hoping to buy. He wanted to buy sort of a big house and this house just wasn’t that big. So it was a tough decision. But my friend eventually did decide to buy the house.
And a few years after he made the purchase, I remember, we were talking about the decision and why he decided to buy the house. He told me, well, of course, it was because of the house’s location. He told me how happy he was with the fact it was so close to his work, how great it was only few minutes from his job. I said, “Yes, but, what about its size? Do you still think the house is kind of small?” And he looked at me kind of surprised, “Small? What do you mean small?” Like he didn’t know what I was talking about. The house’s size, a couple of years after buying it, just didn’t seem to be on his mind anymore.
托福TPO32口语task4题目 Question:
Explain how the example from the professor’s lecture illustrate the choice-supportive bias.
托福TPO32口语task4题目答案解析:
抽象概念：
Choice supportive bias is a tendency that after people make a choice, they would favor that option and only remember the advantages of their choice, and overlook or even forget the disadvantages of their decision.
例子：
1.Professor's friend looked for a house to buy
2.Found a house
3.Great location and close to work
4.Downside: small
5.Bought the house anyway
6.Later when asked about the house, he was really pleased about the house and close to work
7.Remember the size problem
托福TPO32口语task4题目范文:
Choice supportive bias is a tendency that after people make a choice, they would favor that option and only remember the advantages of their choice, and overlook or even forget the disadvantages of their decision.
Just like the example of the professor' s friend. He was looking for a house to buy, and he found this house with a great location because it’s close to his workplace. However, the house was smaller when he wanted to buy a bigger one, He eventually bought the house. After a few years, when he was asked about the house, he said that he was really happy about the fact that the house is close to his work, and the size issue was hardly on his mind, which means he only remembered the advantages, and forgot the disadvantages of his choice.
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