PTE Listening

Multiple Choice, Single Answer

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Pearson Test of English — TestDayTwin Practice

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Listen to the recording and answer the question.

According to the psychology lecture, what is the main reason people tend to overestimate how much others notice their mistakes, a phenomenon known as the spotlight effect?

People generally have unusually low self-esteem about their appearancePeople assume others are equally self-focused and therefore inattentivePeople wrongly project their own intense self-awareness onto observersPeople are trained from childhood to expect constant social judgment