Students sometimes change their answers on multiple-choice questions. Many students believe that the most common outcome is that they change from the correct answer to a wrong answer, despite research that shows that students more often change from an incorrect answer to a correct one. What accounts for the strength of this erroneous belief?
A)scientific thinking via logical deduction
B)social cognition biases that distort their beliefs of their experiences
C)a priori thinking-they reason that it would have been better to go with the first hunch or instinct
D)none of the above-students in fact believe that they are successful when they change answers

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Social cognition biases, such as the confirmation bias, can lead students to remember instances where changing an answer led to a wrong choice more vividly than when it led to a correct one, thus distorting their belief.

Students Sometimes Change Their Answers on Multiple-Choice Questions