The Lack of Preparation for an Attack on Pearl Harbor

question 103

Multiple Choice

The lack of preparation for an attack on Pearl Harbor can be attributable to:

• A) the perceptual bias
• B) groupthink
• C) the anchoring bias
• D) the representativeness bias
• E) the fundamental attribution bias

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