Recall from Your Text That Researchers Gave Students False Feedback

question 41

Multiple Choice

Recall from your text that researchers gave students false feedback about their abilities to distinguish between false and real suicide notes. At the conclusion of the study, the researchers informed the students that their feedback was in no way related to their actual performance. However, on a subsequent task where the students had to estimate their performance on a similar task, they used this false feedback to guide their estimates. This is an example of

• A)belief perseverance.
• B)confirmation bias.
• C)hindsight bias.
• D)overconfidence.

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