Multiple Choice
William Ward and Herbert Jenkins (1965) conducted a hypothetical 50-day cloud-seeding experiment.Participants were told on which of the 50 days the clouds had been seeded and on which days it rained.The results indicated that sometimes it rained after seeding and sometimes it did not.In spite of these random results,the participants were convinced that there existed a relationship between cloud seeding and rain.This experiment best illustrates
A) an illusion of control.
B) the availability heuristic.
C) an illusory correlation.
D) a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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