Billy lives in Sameville, U. S. A., where there are very few instances of crime and very few immigrants. On the news one night, Billy hears a story about a Russian immigrant who robbed a local jewelry store. Billy now assumes that Russian immigrants are thieves. This may be a consequence of

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Hope Dixon

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15 September, 14:25

Billy lives in Sameville, U. S. A., where there are very few instances of crime and very few immigrants. On the news one night, Billy hears a story about a Russian immigrant who robbed a local jewelry store. Billy now assumes that Russian immigrants are thieves. This may be a consequence of

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Lorelei Pruitt · Answer 1

The correct answer is A) illusory correlation.

Billy lives in Sameville, U. S. A., where there are very few instances of crime and very few immigrants. On the news one night, Billy hears a story about a Russian immigrant who robbed a local jewelry store. Billy now assumes that Russian immigrants are thieves. This may be a consequence of illusory correlation.

Illusory correlation is present when an individual perceives the existence of a relationship between two variables that are not really related. It could be a false connection of ideas or concepts due to a specific situation or incident. That is why Billy is wrongly associating that isolated incident and believing that all Russians are thieves.

The other options of the question were B) self-fulfilling prophecy, and C) social identity theory.