AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -We tend to overestimate the extent to which other people share our attitudes and opinions. This is because we spend most of our time with people who represent: A. atypical individual cases.

Detailed explanation-2: -Simply put, it is the tendency for individuals to overestimate the level at which other people share their beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors. False consensus effect is a type of bias in which we think that our own opinions, attitudes, beliefs, etc. are common and appropriate, so that others must also feel the same way.

Detailed explanation-3: -The False-Consensus Effect: People Overestimate How Much Others Are Like Them. The false-consensus effect is a cognitive bias that causes people to overestimate how much others are like them, in terms of sharing things such as their beliefs, values, characteristics, experiences, and behaviors.

Detailed explanation-4: -The fundamental attribution error (also known as correspondence bias or over-attribution effect) is the tendency for people to over-emphasize dispositional, or personality-based explanations for behaviors observed in others while under-emphasizing situational explanations.

Detailed explanation-5: -Attribution bias is the tendency to explain a person’s behaviour by referring to their character rather than any situational factor. In essence, it leads us to overestimate the weight of someone’s personality traits, and underestimate the influence of their individual circumstances.