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Rochelle remembered getting "Bs" in her English Literature classes in college. But years later, when she applied for a job and took out her transcript, she was shocked to find that she had actually gotten "C–" grades. She then started telling everyone she remembers being a pretty poor student. Her erratic memory of her mediocre performance is most likely due to ________.

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Answer:hindsight bias

Explanation:Hindsight bias is a term used in psychology to explain the tendency of people to overestimate their ability to have predicted an outcome that could not possibly have been predicted.

example of hindsight bias is when people are wrong about the outcome of an event, but claim they knew it was going to go the opposite way to which they originally stated.

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