Jack Is Deciding When He Should Start an Assignment

question 109

Multiple Choice

Jack is deciding when he should start an assignment. He predicts it will take him a couple of hours so he decides to leave it until the night before. This is an example of

• A) immune neglect.
• B) impact bias.
• C) planning fallacy.
• D) temporal comparison.

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