In her social psychology course, Maria learns that the more one is exposed to something, such as a song on the radio, the more one tends to like it. Maria thinks this so obvious and questions why she signed up for the class. What might Maria be displaying?

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Maria is displaying the hindsight bias, also known as the "I-knew-it-all-along" phenomenon. She feels that the information presented in class is so obvious that she doesn't need to learn it, and therefore may overestimate her ability to have predicted it beforehand.

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