A manager doing performance appraisals gives more weight to recent employee behaviors than to behaviors of 6 or 9 months earlier. This shows that the manager's perception is affected by a(n) ________ bias.
A) self-serving bias
B) availability
C) impact
D) distinction
E) hindsight

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The correct answer is B) availability. Availability bias refers to the tendency for people to base their judgments on information that is easily accessible. He has to dig through the archive to prepare the documents that are more than half year old and he will be more inclined to just look at the latest information that he has. Someting that is happening in the present always seems more relevant than the outdated information.

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