Jill's parents always take her to a restaurant on her birthday.This year she looked around and said,"Look at all the other people having birthdays." This best illustrates:
A) centering.
B) inductive reasoning.
C) seriation.
D) syncretism.

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Jill's statement illustrates syncretism, which is the tendency to think that if two events occur simultaneously, they must be related. In this case, she assumes that because other people are at the restaurant on her birthday, they must also be celebrating their birthdays.

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