Participants in an Experiment Heard a Description of the Military

question 203

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. Most participants insisted that they would have correctly predicted the outcome that they were told about. This effect is known as

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

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Definitions:

Probabilities

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