AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -hindsight bias, the tendency, upon learning an outcome of an event-such as an experiment, a sporting event, a military decision, or a political election-to overestimate one’s ability to have foreseen the outcome.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hindsight bias is a psychological phenomenon that allows people to convince themselves after an event that they accurately predicted it before it happened. This can lead people to conclude that they can accurately predict other events.

Detailed explanation-3: -Hindsight bias is the tendency for people with outcome knowledge to exaggerate the extent to which they would have predicted the event beforehand, while outcome bias refers to the influence of outcome knowledge upon evaluations of decision quality.

Detailed explanation-4: -The hindsight bias involves the tendency people have to assume that they knew the outcome of an event after the outcome has already been determined. For example, after attending a baseball game, you might insist that you knew that the winning team was going to win beforehand.

Detailed explanation-5: -Hindsight bias, also known as the knew-it-all-along phenomenon or creeping determinism, is the common tendency for people to perceive past events as having been more predictable than they actually were.