For many years, newspapers often mentioned the race of criminal suspects who were NOT white in the article detailing their crimes. This often led people who were not obviously biased or prejudiced to conclude that more non-whites committed crimes than whites. This is one example of __________.
A) the confirmation bias.
B) the hindsight bias.
C) an illusory correlation.
D) the representativeness heuristic.
Answer: C) an illusory correlation.
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a. generalized anxiety disorder. b. neurotic anxiety. c. reality anxiety. d. moral anxiety.
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A. near the Great Lakes B. in the Midwest C. in New England D. in the Deep South
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A) long B) short C) mutated D) normal
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false