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After taking a psychology test you identify that you have an achievement oriented personality. You think that you would have predicted this result without this test although it may not have been the case. This tendency to think that we could have predicted something that we probably would not have been able to is called _____.

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Answer: Hindsight Bias

Explanation: The Hindsight bias occurs when we feel sure that we could have predicted an specific outcome based on the events that has already ocurred.

It is also know as the "Knew it all along phenomenom"

It is a common tendency for people to perceive certain outcomes or situations as more predictable than they actually were before they happened.

In conclusion, the correct answer is Hindsight Bias, which is that tendency to think that we could have predicted something when that something already happened.

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