Summary: Journal Entry

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Joseph Charles
PSYC 150
Journal Entry #1

The Event
I had performed extremely well in my calculus 1 class and had over a 100% in the class. I had aced the previous two exams and felt confident about optimization, which the next exam was over. I studied for close to 60 hours over two weeks for the exam and had gone over the previous exams and homework from the section. I ended up getting a 72% on the exam and once I looked over it realized that the problems I had gotten wrong were over minimization and not maximization. After looking over the questions and doing corrections I could not believe I got such easy questions wrong.

The Psychology
According to the “hindsight bias” we are more likely to believe something after learning the outcome,

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