👉 Spuriousness is a concept in psychology that describes how individuals may experience phenomena or events as if they were not actually there, even though they are. This could involve a wide range of phenomena, from dreams to hallucinations, and can be influenced by cognitive biases such as confirmation bias. In psychological terms, spuriousness refers to the phenomenon where an individual perceives something as real when it is not, or vice versa. For example, someone may perceive a dream as reality because they have experienced
