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When the Elementary Teacher Needed to Buy Poster Board for Her

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When the elementary teacher needed to buy poster board for her class, she remembered that she had found some poster boards at her local 99 Cents Only store, at Walmart, and at her Family Dollar Store. What term best describes the information search method used by the teacher?


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Overconfidence Bias

The tendency to hold a subjective belief unreasonably confidently, making someone believe their ability, or the accuracy of their information, is higher than it actually is.

Confirmation Bias

The bias towards finding, interpreting, selecting, and recollecting evidence in ways that validate one's prior beliefs or notions.

Hindsight Bias

The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it, known also as the "I-knew-it-all-along" effect.

Eyewitness

A person who directly observes an event, like a crime, and can provide testimony about what happened.

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