Sara's Laptop Started Causing Her Problems

question 116

Multiple Choice

Sara's laptop started causing her problems.It was taking a long time to boot up,and froze unexpectedly a number of times.Now the laptop has shut down completely and she cannot get it started up again.One of the group members on her project said to Sara,"You should have gone for help when it started acting up,now you've affected all of us." This scenario is an example of what type of decision-making trap?

• A)framing bias
• B)anchoring
• C)overconfidence bias
• D)hindsight bias

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