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melina_rosy

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According to the authors of your text, the hindsight bias is
 
  a. the tendency for people to exaggerate how much they could have predicted an outcome after knowing that it occurred.
  b. the level of agreement between two or more people who independently observe and code a set of data.
  c. a form of the observational method in which the researcher examines the accumulated documents of a culture.
  d. the extent to which results of a study can be generalized to other situations and to other people.

Question 2

After Lyla's husband was injured in a car accident, she said, I woke up with a bad feeling in my stomachI knew something was off about that day. Lyla is exhibiting
 
  a. accessibility.
  b. thought suppression.
  c. counterfactual thinking.
  d. the hindsight bias.



dmurph1496

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Answer to Question 1

Answer: A

Answer to Question 2

Answer: D



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