A friend of yours says to you-- I know you're going to work with people with mental problems but aren't you worried that you might be attacked or stalked or something? I mean after all I saw on the news last year about that psychologist who was killed by her client. You talk with your friend about the topic and then decide to look into some studies about people with mental illness and aggression towards therapists. What you are trying to do is overcome...
A. Rank-order correlations
B. Beliefs about aggression
C. Illusions about people with mental illness
D. Illusory correlations
Answer:D
A friend of yours says to you-- I know you're going to work with people with mental problems but aren't you worried that you might be attacked or stalked or something? I mean after all I saw on the news last year about that psychologist who was killed by her client. You talk with your friend about the topic and then decide to look into some studies about people with mental illness and aggression towards therapists. What you are trying to do is overcome...
A. Rank-order correlations B. Beliefs about aggression C. Illusions about people with mental illness D. Illusory correlations