Question

At the beginning of the school year, students were asked to predict several social behaviors such as how often they would call their parents, and to say how accurate they thought their predictions would be. Their predictions were not as accurate as they had thought they would be. This illustrates a phenomenon known as _____

Answer 1

Answer:

Overconfidence.

Explanation:

Overconfidence refers to the phenomenon that an individual's confidence in their decisions is higher than the accuracy of these judgments.  It is determined by the differences in subjective judgment about answers is compared with the objective accuracy of those answers. It is explained by two classes of explanations:

a) differences in information processing.

b) effects of judgmental error.