The overall incidence of a disorder is the total proportion of people in a given population who have been affected by the disorder at some point during their lives.

When Kate read her horoscope for the day, she was amazed to find that it described her very well. She is probably a victim of

A) the P.T. Barnum effect. B) mental set bias. C) self-actualization. D) social desirability bias.

Brenda has not turned in her homework for over a week and her teacher assumes that she is lazy and unmotivated. It never occurs to Brenda's teacher that she is under a lot of stress and dealing with difficult life circumstances

The teacher's explanation for Brenda's behavior can be considered an example of: a. the correspondence bias. b. the planning fallacy. c. the attributional error effect. d. the false consensus effect.