Cognitive Biases
Continuing to watch a bad movie just because you already paid for the ticket.
A- Anchoring Bias B- Bandwagon Effect
C- Negativity Bias D- Sunk Cost Fallacy
E- Happy Gilmore 2 F- All of the above
D- Sunk Cost Fallacy
True or False - Hindsight Bias causes us to see past events as less predictable than they actually were.
FALSE!
What are "automatic thoughts"?
A- Deliberate and slow thoughts
B- Thoughts that appear instantly and are often negative
C- Thoughts that appear instantly and are often positive
D- Always based on facts
B- Thoughts that appear instantly and are often negative
What is "decatastrophizing"?
A- A technique to magnify the importance of a problem.
B- A way to avoid uncomfortable situations.
C- A technique to bring a feared event into proper perspective.
D- A form of deep breathing.
E- It's catastrophizing when done by a person whose name starts with the letter D.
C- A technique to bring a feared event into proper perspective.
Which of the following describes the core mechanism that links codependency and drug addiction as cross-addictions?
A- Both are rooted in a genetic predisposition.
B- Both require willpower to overcome.
C- Both are to cope w/ underlying emotional issues.
D- Both are triggered by environmental factors.
C- Both are to cope w/ underlying emotional issues.
Only reading newspaper articles that agree with your political views.
A- Anchoring Bias B- Dictatorship Bias
C- Hindsight Bias D- Negativity Bias
E- Confirmation Bias F- Sunk Cost Fallacy
E- Confirmation Bias
Which statement about Hindsight Bias is TRUE?
A- It only affects people with low intelligence.
B- It's easy to avoid once a person is aware of it.
C- It's difficult to avoid, even a person is aware of it.
D- It never happens to psychology experts.
C- It's difficult to avoid, even a person is aware of it.
The central idea of Cognitive Behavior Therapy is that our ___, not just outside events, create our moods & influence our behavior.
A- therapists B- medications C- sponsors
D- thoughts E- governments F- pets
D- thoughts
What is the primary goal of cognitive restructuring?
A- To ignore negative emotions and focus only on positive ones.
B- To uncover childhood memories that cause current distress.
C- To identify, challenge, and replace irrational or maladaptive thoughts.
D- To reinforce existing beliefs about oneself.
E- To keep things interesting.
C- To identify, challenge, and replace irrational or maladaptive thoughts.
To BEST way to communicate with someone experiencing a panic attack is with ____.
A- medication B- threats C- jazz music
D- sign language E - judgment F- facts
F- facts
Trusting the provided information more if presented by an attractive person.
A- Authority Bias B- Overconfidence Bias
C- Halo Effect D- Sun Cost Fallacy
E- Hindsight Bias F- Anchoring Bias
C- Halo Effect
To reduce the impact of hindsight bias in decision-making, which strategy is the most effective?
A- Only trust your intuition, as logic is prone to bias.
B- Consider and explain how alternative outcomes could have occurred.
C- Assume all outcomes were inevitable.
D- Never review past decisions.
B- Consider and explain how alternative outcomes could have occurred.
What is "Emotional Reasoning"?
A- Being very emotional
B- Believing that your feelings are facts
C- Suppressing emotions
D- Providing a reason for your emotions
E- Latenight Taco Bell
B- Believing that your feelings are facts
Cognitive restructuring is about realistic & ____ thinking.
A- stinkin' B- positive C- balanced
D- unrealistic E- psilocybin-induced
C- balanced
The term "codependency" was initially coined within the ________ ________ community in the 1950s.
A- Atlanta Falcons. B- Medical Compliance
C- Alcoholics Anonymous D- Collegiate Education
E- Private School F- Psychological Research
C- Alcoholics Anonymous
Attributing success to practice and skill and attributing failure to external factors.
A- Self-Serving Bias B- Confirmation Bias
C- Hindsight Bias D- Anchoring Bias
E- Negativity Bias F- Simon Cowell Bias
A- Self-Serving Bias
RIDDLE ALERT! - What do you call a lion running around on the 3rd floor of a hospital?
Lost.
"Behavioral activation" helps with...
A- Reducing anxiety by avoiding situations
B- Meditating a lot to block out the world
C- Suppressing emotions at bedtime
D- Reducing tiredness by drinking red bull
E- Increasing activity for depression
E- Increasing activity for depression
Which is false about cognitive restructuring?
A- Cognitive restructuring is a technique used to replace irrational or maladaptive thoughts with more realistic and balanced ones.
B- "All-or-nothing" thinking is an example of a cognitive distortion.
C- "Should" statements are considered helpful, motivating thoughts.
D- Personalization is a cognitive distortion where a person blames themselves for an event completely outside their control.
C- "Should" statements are considered helpful, motivating thoughts.
Phone addiction is the obsessive use of a smartphone. This behavioral addiction based in the fear of being without a mobile device, AKA _______.
A-PHONOPHOBIA B-CELLPHOBIA C-NOMOPHOBIA
D-AGORAPHOBIA E-TALKAPHOBIA F-FILLOPHOBIA
C-NOMOPHOBIA
Assuming that a random sequence is "due" to change after a long streak of the same sequence.
A- Hindsight Bias B- Hot Hand Fallacy
C- Sunk Cost Fallacy D- Gambler's Fallacy
E- Negativity Bias F- Meteorology
D- Gambler's Fallacy
Hindsight Bias is distinct from Self-Serving Bias because..
A- Hindsight Bias only applies to negative outcomes.
B- Hindsight Bias is purely a cognitive.
C- Hindsight Bias occurs regardless of whether the outcome is positive or negative.
D- Hindsight Bias always results in improved future decision-making.
E- Hindsight Bias requires vision instead of other senses.
C- Hindsight Bias occurs regardless of whether the outcome is positive or negative.
Which is true about CBT?
A- Based on the assumption that positive thinking is the key to mental health.
B- In CBT, thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are considered independent of one another.
C- CBT generally ignores the past and focuses only on present-day functioning.
D- According to Beck’s cognitive model, the "negative triad" involves a negative view of oneself, the world, and the future.
E- It only is effective in 1 out of every 10 people
According to Beck’s cognitive model, the "negative triad" involves a negative view of oneself, the world, and the future.
A "cost-benefit analysis" in cognitive restructuring is used to determine whether holding a specific, distorted belief is ___ or ___ to oneself.
A- realistic/unrealistic B- helpful/harmful
C- true/false. D- beneficial/unrealistic
E- harmful/logical F- nice/not nice
B- helpful / harmful
RIDDLE ALERT! - What did the gambling addict name his daughter?
Betty