Which of the Following Best Describes a Planning Fallacy

question 58

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best describes a planning fallacy?

• A)the tendency to choose information supporting our existing position and ignore conflicting evidence
• B)the tendency to underestimate the time it will take to complete a task
• C)the tendency to rely on one piece of information, however irrelevant
• D)the tendency to believe that an actual event was predictable even if it was not

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Definitions:

Source-Monitoring Error

A type of memory error where an individual misattributes the origin of a memory, confusing the source from which information was acquired.

Retrograde Amnesia

A loss of memory access to events that occurred, or information that was learned, before an injury or the onset of a disease.

Pseudoforgetting

The phenomenon where information is thought to be forgotten but actually was never learned effectively in the first place.

Ineffective Encoding

The failure to store relevant or necessary information in memory due to insufficient attention or misunderstanding.