Question

A famous college football coach believes that if he bends down and eats a little of the grass every time his team is visiting another school's stadium, his team will have good luck in the game. He has done this for two years and has yet to lose an "away" game. His tendency to believe he sees the world correctly, and that the world exists precisely as he sees it, is called __________.

Answer 1

Answer:

Naïve realism

Explanation:

Naive realism is a state of mind when a person believes the world as he/she sees it. There is no attempt to understand the actual meaning of things. Things are just understood at a surface level.

Here, the coach eats a little grass every time his team is visiting another school's stadium and his team always wins. He makes the connection that his team wins only because he eats grass. So, far his team has not lost this further solidifies this idea in his mind. He does not try to understand the actual reason why his team wins and the other teams lose.