According to the text,_______________ tends to make people overconfident about their ability to predict something that,at the time it was unfolding,they had no idea how it will all turn out.

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The given statement describes the concept of hindsight bias, which is the tendency for people to believe, after an event has occurred, that they would have predicted or expected the outcome beforehand. Option A (fundamental attribution error) refers to the tendency to overemphasize dispositional (internal) explanations for others' behavior rather than considering situational (external) factors. Option B (illusory correlation) is a cognitive bias in which people perceive a relationship between two variables when there is none. Option C (naturalistic fallacy) is the belief that what is natural is inherently good or correct.

According to the Text,_______________ Tends to Make People Overconfident About