A Situation When Decision Quality Is Bad and the Resulting

question 25

Multiple Choice

A situation when decision quality is bad and the resulting outcome quality is good is referred to as

• A) dumb luck.
• B) deserved success.
• C) bad luck.
• D) poetic justice.

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Definitions:

Hindsight Bias

The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it, often referred to as the "I-knew-it-all-along" effect.

Proactive Interference

The effect wherein earlier memories hinder the ability to remember more recent memories.

Retroactive Interference

A memory disruption phenomenon where new information interferes with the ability to recall old information.

Memorization

The process of committing something to memory or learning it by heart.