When people experience intense emotions like fear, anger, or excitement, their hearts tend to speed up and pound

It would be easy to conclude that the heart is what is causing these emotions, but this would be incorrect. This lack of consistency between an apparent relationship between two events and the true course of events demonstrates which of the six principles of scientific thinking?
A) Falsifiability
B) Occam's Razor
C) Correlation vs. causation
D) Replicability


Answer: C

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