You have reservations about taking an advanced chemistry class but you decide to register anyway.After you receive a D on your first exam you think to yourself,"I knew this class was going to be too hard! I never should have signed up." Your belief that you knew the outcome all along refers to what phenomenon?

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The phenomenon being described is hindsight bias, which refers to the tendency to believe, after an event has occurred, that one would have predicted or expected the outcome to occur. In this case, the individual is saying they "knew this class was going to be too hard" after receiving a D on their first exam, indicating they believed they had predicted this outcome all along.

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