Because he often sees television reports about politicians who have behaved dishonestly and have been prosecuted for ethics violations, Warren tends to believe that all politicians are dishonest and untrustworthy. This is an example of a/an

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Anderson Branch

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5 August, 02:36

Because he often sees television reports about politicians who have behaved dishonestly and have been prosecuted for ethics violations, Warren tends to believe that all politicians are dishonest and untrustworthy. This is an example of a/an

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Noelle Chapman · Answer 1

Illusory correlation

Explanation:

This question is missing its options, the options for this question are:

A) Confirmation bias

B) Illusory correlation

C) Existence proof

D) Type I error

In psychology, the term illusory correlation refers to the phenomenon of perceiving a relationship between two variables when there's actually no relationship between them. In other words, it is to relate two unrelated variables.

In this example, Warren watches television reports about dishonest politicians and he tends to believe that all politicians are dishonest and untrustworthy. We can see that he is relating the fact that they are politicians with the characteristics of dishonesty and untrustworthy. He is relating two variables that are not necessarily related (because the television reports he watches have an influence on him). Therefore, this is an example of an Illusory correlation.