Stephon Knows Someone Whose Brother Received a Very Lucrative Contract

question 60

Multiple Choice

Stephon knows someone whose brother received a very lucrative contract to play professional basketball for the National Basketball Association (NBA) .With this success story in mind,he ignores the statistics that indicate a very low probability that anyone will make it to the NBA and overestimates his own chances of making it.This scenario best illustrates

• A)the covariation principle.
• B)the base-rate fallacy.
• C)non-correspondent inferences.
• D)the actor-observer effect.

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