Tara concludes that whenever she wears a red dress she receives a call from her parents. she decides to wear a blue dress tonight to avoid a phone call from home. what is the name of the type of thinking that tara is engaging in
The name of the type of thinking that Tara is engaging in is superstition or a fallacy.
Superstition is an unfounded belief. Superstition is to believe in supernatural things.
This is also a kind of falacy which is an unvalid reasoning based on no sufficient evidence, a premature generalization. Falacies are unfounded and misleading reasoning.
