Question

The tendency to overestimate one's ability to have foreseen or predicted the outcome of an event after it has occurred is to _____ as the tendency to blame an innocent victim of misfortune for having somehow caused the problem is to _____. Group of answer choices

Answer 1

hindsight bias; blaming the victim

Step-by-step explanation:

Hindsight bias: In psychology, the term hindsight bias refers to the tendency of a person to overestimate his or her ability to predict a particular outcome that couldn't perhaps have been predicted.

Example: A person claims that he knew that the outcome of a particular is going to happen opposite the way he describes earlier.

Blaming the victim: It refers to the phenomenon to blame victims of any negative event responsible for the outcome. It can happen in various situations such as sexual assault.