Your friend Elka tells you that mentally disordered people are more likely to commit crime

Your friend Elka tells you that mentally disordered people

 

Your friend Elka tells you that mentally disordered people are more likely to commit crime; she reads about incidents like this in the paper all the time.

Based on your knowledge from this course, you know that this is an illusory correlation, or a relationship that seems correct but is not factually true. Elka’s mistaken belief is an error caused by

 

 

A.

the overconfidence barrier.

 

 

B.

the availability heuristic.

 

 

C.

the representativeness heuristic.

 

 

D.

controlled processing.