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) the confirmation bias.
C) the hindsight bias.
D) overconfidence.
Answer: A
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