A friend tells you that drama majors tend to be extremely disorganized. However, when you actually make a tally of 10 friends who are drama majors and 20 friends who are not, you find no relationship. Your friend's error was most likely to be an example o
a. the hindsight bias.
b. an illusory correlation.
c. the framing effect.
d. the anchoring and adjustment heuristic.
Ans: b
Psychology
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Eddie is wearing a silly ape suit at a costume party. Although he is normally responsible and respectful, Eddie joins in when the party starts getting wild. After the police break up the gathering, he apologetically tells them that he "forgot himself." What phenomenon does this illustrate?
a. the just-world hypothesis b. diffusion of responsibility c. deindividuation d. groupthink
Psychology