When Completing a Forward Pass, You Carry the Early Finish

question 116

Essay

When completing a forward pass, you carry the early finish to the next activity where it becomes its early start, unless the next succeeding activity is a merge activity. In this case you select the largest early finish number of all its immediate predecessor activities. Why do you select the largest early finish number?

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Definitions:

Correspondent Inference

Correspondent inference is a theory in social psychology that explains how individuals infer the disposition or traits of others from their observed behavior, especially when their actions are freely chosen.

External Attribution

The process of attributing the cause of a behavior or event to situational factors outside the control of the individual.

Availability Heuristic

A cognitive heuristic that depends on readily accessible examples in an individual's memory when assessing a particular subject, idea, technique, or choice.

Mood-Congruent Memory

The tendency to recall memories that are congruent with one's current mood, enhancing the mood's effects on memory recall.