The false consensus effect occurs when a person overestimates ___________
a. the extent to which other people share his or her beliefs and behaviors.
b. a researcher's ability to accurately anticipate what is going to happen in the future.
c. the importance of using random assignment to groups in a formal experiment.
d. the frequency with which we use an inappropriate research design to explore the question we are investigating.
Answer: A
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Anthony classically conditioned his cat to purr whenever the phone rang. One day, the phone rang for nearly two hours straight when Anthony wasn't home, and the cat's conditioned purring response underwent extinction. Today, the response has spontaneously recovered, but if the conditioned purring response were to undergo extinction again, Anthony should expect that it will
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