Tony has been a consistently below-average performer in his role at Atlantis.However,over the last five months,he has been performing well.His manager,Rick,gives him a positive evaluation on the basis of his excellent performance over the last few months.This is called:
A) confirmation bias.
B) anchoring bias.
C) recency effect.
D) primacy effect.
E) tolerance for ambiguity.

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The recency effect refers to the tendency to give greater weightage or importance to more recent events or information while ignoring older information or events. In this scenario, Rick is giving Tony a positive evaluation based on his recent excellent performance, despite Tony's consistently below-average performance in the past. This is an example of the recency effect.

Tony Has Been a Consistently Below-Average Performer in His Role