Two weeks before his performance appraisal, John successfully resolved a service complaint involving one of the company's most important clients. Although John's job performance is usually average and sometimes poor, his manager gave him a glowing performance appraisal. Which of the following best describes the type of error that the manager made in appraising John's performance?

Group of answer choices

Past$-$record anchoring error

Leniency error

Recency error

Central tendency error