The Text Describes the Influence of the Law of Contagion

question 36

Multiple Choice

The text describes the influence of the law of contagion as a kind of overgeneralization, or sweeping generalization, in that people under its influence tend to:

• A) avoid contact with all people whom they believe could have a disease, even when those people cannot transmit the disease to others.
• B) engage in faulty inductive reasoning, in which they lack sufficient information to draw a well-reasoned conclusion.
• C) believe in superstitious ideas that are stereotypes about people and so shun other people for being different from them.
• D) generalize beyond the diseases individuals know they have and conclude that they also have other diseases.

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