According to the text, optimistic bias is defined as
a. the gap between what children and adolescents can accomplish alone and what they are capable of doing if guided by a more competent peer.
b. the tendency to assume that accidents, diseases, and other misfortunes are more likely to happen to others than ourselves.
c. the cognitive process that occurs when a scheme is changed to adapt new information or assimilate prior knowledge.
d. an aspect of short-term memory that refers to where information may be influenced by heuristic thinking
Answer: b
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