Author Question: Suppose that a coin is flipped 20 times. The first 19 flips are all heads. Is the last flip more ... (Read 2893 times)

luvbio · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Suppose that a coin is flipped 20 times. The first 19 flips are all heads. Is the last flip more likely to be heads, more likely to be tails, or equally likely to be heads or tails? When people engage in the gambler's fallacy, they ____.

a. say that the last flip is more likely to be heads
b. say that the last flip is more likely to be tails
c. say that the last flip is more likely to be heads OR say that the last flip is more likely to be tails
d. say that the last flip is equally likely to be heads or tails

Question 2

Psychologists use the term ____ to describe the sense of anonymity that often arises when people are in large groups, and which makes people especially likely to engage in aggressive, destructive behavior.

a. avoidance
b. deindividuation
c. running amok
d. antisocialization