Participants in an Experiment Heard a Description of the Military

question 75

Multiple Choice

Participants in an experiment heard a description of the military conflicts between the British and the Gurkas in India. Some were told the true outcome and others were told false outcomes. All participants overestimated their ability to have predicted the outcome that they believed to be true. This is known as

• A) confabulation.
• B) repression.
• C) hindsight bias.
• D) procedural memory.

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