Joey and phillip are high school students in the same class. joey imitates phillip’s stammer in front of his friends and laughs. when none of his friends comment on his imitation, joey assumes that they find phillip’s stammer funny as well.
this scenario best exemplifies the effect.

a. false consensus
b. bystander
c. group polarization
d. mere exposure

A. false consensus

Explanation:

False consensus: In psychology, the term false consensus is defined as a cognitive bias which is considered to as an attributional type in which an individual tends to overestimate the degree to which his or her beliefs, values, habits, opinions, and preferences are considered as typical and normal as compared to others.

Due to false consensus, an individual believes that the other person is more similar to him or her than the person is.

In the question above, the given scenario best exemplifies the false consensus effect.          

c. taught scientists many new things about the earth, but not other planets.

explanation:

it is a part of john locke's natural rights popular during the age of enlightenment that people had inalienable rights to life, liberty and property. this was reflected by thomas jefferson in his declaration of independence as rights to life,liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

another line in the declaration of independence is that people have certain rights just because they are human. humans are capable of obeying the three natural rights john locke mentioned making them governable by these laws and therefore entitled to these rights as well.