<span>People have a choice and the ability to create opportunities for themselves! That's why!</span>
Answer:
The options are given below:
A. discriminatory regulation
B. heuristic
C. illusory correlation
D. foot-in-the-door model
The correct option is C. illusory correlation
Explanation:
In the field of psychology, illusory correlation refers to the phenomenon in which people perceive a relationship or connection between variables even when such relationship or connection do not exist. Oftentimes, people tend to attach a particular behavior or actions to a particular set of people, for example, when a person believes that people who live urban environments are rude. This belief will make the person think that every rude person they meet, lives in the city, rather than a rural area.
Therefore, in the scenario given above, where people assume there exists a relationship between violence and mental illnesses, when in fact, there is none, we say it is an Illusory Correlation.
