The Familiarity Effect Is the Tendency of People To

question 85

Multiple Choice

The familiarity effect is the tendency of people to:

• A) be unable to distinguish between actual experiences and what they have been told.
• B) believe that a statement is true simply because it has been repeated a number of times.
• C) feel more positive toward a person, item, product, or other stimulus that they have seen often.
• D) overestimate their abilities to have predicted an event once the outcome is known.

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