Ellie's mom bumps into her, and ellie's juice is spilled as a result. since ellie spilled her juice, she's expecting her mom to yell at her, but is surprised when she receives no punishment. ellie believes in

Ellie believes in "immanent justice."

Immanent justice thinking includes causally ascribing a merited result to somebody's earlier good deeds or character, notwithstanding when such a causal association is physically implausible. Immanent justice thinking serves essential mental capacities in adulthood, and is supported by thinking forms and otherworldly suppositions that are not secured when youngsters progress toward becoming grown-ups.

i believe the answer is:   psychological  experiment

in this experiment, wilhelm wundt became the first person that implement scientific method in analyzing the pyschological phenomenon.

due to this result, wilhelm wundt also able to make psychology to be acknowledged as a separate scientific field from biology.