Many people were convinced that Ethan had psychic abilities after he identified the park where the body of a missing person was eventually found. However, they failed to take into account the hundreds of times Ethan made predictions that were false. This example illustrates the:
A) belief-bias effect.
B) confirmation bias.
C) overestimation effect.
D) fallacy of positive instances.

Question

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The fallacy of positive instances occurs when people remember the instances that confirm their beliefs and forget those that do not. In this case, people remember Ethan's correct prediction but ignore his many incorrect ones.

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