You flip a coin four times and it comes up heads each time. You bet your friend $100 on tails for the fifth flip. You assume that it has to be tails this time because the four previous flips were heads. This is an example of___________

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Answer:

gambler's fallacy

Explanation:

gambler's fallacy - it is referred to as the false belief that outcomes of one vent can deter according to past events. People believed that if the occurrence of one event is more frequent in the past then it is less likely that it will occur in the future with the same frequency.

People also have gambler's fallacy when they think that frequent occurrence of a particular event is likely to cause the occurrence of other events