Question

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

Answer 1

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.