preconceptions in English

noun
1
a preconceived idea or prejudice.
Full and free discussion even of ideas we hate encourages the testing of our own prejudices and preconceptions .
synonyms:preconceived idea/notionpresuppositionassumptionpresumptionprejudgmentprejudice
noun

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1. I had no preconceptions about what to expect.

2. She completely overturned my preconceptions about film stars.

3. Everyone has certain preconceptions of what a drug addict is.

4. Religious people too may have preconceptions that distort their attitude toward science.

5. We like this approach because it fits in with our own preconceptions.

6. The political situation there was equally at variance with our preconceptions.

7. The composers now working there have brought no preconceptions or hidebound conventions.

8. 2 In this era of funding cutbacks and academic brain drains, one must suspend preconceptions.

9. • In this era of funding Cutbacks and academic brain drains, one must suspend preconceptions

10. Bracketing is a method used in qualitative research to mitigate the potentially deleterious effects of preconceptions that may taint the research process

11. The act of digging a garden bed unaided helps to counter self-doubts and public preconceptions about blind people's capabilities.

12. 29 Other bands don't: they eschew the arty deliberations of the underground in favour of an all-out assault upon preconceptions and asinine posturing.

13. In Greco-Roman history there were Aulical preconceptions about the work of man 's hands, but there were also religious associations of workers where work was celebrated

14. Confirmation Bias is the tendency to look for information that supports, rather than rejects, one’s preconceptions, typically by interpreting evidence to confirm existing beliefs while rejecting or ignoring any conflicting data (American Psychological Association).

15. By identifying a moderating variable, namely, the Attempter's preconceptions about the lethality of his act, the authors were able to solve the puzzle of the low correlations between intent and leth …

16. It posed a challenge for Menken and Schwartz because of the "many preconceptions with that number"; it had to be reflective of the era of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Cinderella.