Question
People generally engage in superstitious behavior, like wearing your lucky red socks while taking a test because you wore them last time you got a high grade, because of a belief in a(n)
correlation
confounding variable
outlier
illusory correlation
correlation
confounding variable
outlier
illusory correlation
Answers
GPT-4o mini
People generally engage in superstitious behavior, like wearing your lucky red socks while taking a test because you wore them last time you got a high grade, because of a belief in an **illusory correlation**.
An illusory correlation occurs when a person perceives a relationship between two variables (in this case, the socks and the test performance) even when no such relationship exists.
An illusory correlation occurs when a person perceives a relationship between two variables (in this case, the socks and the test performance) even when no such relationship exists.