Deck 14: Social Psychology in the Clinic

Question 1

Discuss how confirmation bias can lead clinicians to be overconfident in their clinical judgments.

Answer 1

No Answer

Question 2

Review the findings on the relationship between friendships and happiness.

Answer 2

No Answer

Question 3

Discuss the use of negative explanatory style.

Answer 3

No Answer

Question 4

Do depressed moods cause negative thinking, or does negative thinking cause depression?

Question 5

According to research (Cacioppo et al., 2014; Kraav et al., 2020), loneliness puts people at increased risk for all of the following EXCEPT

A) high blood pressure.
B) cognitive decline.
C) obesity.
D) cancer.

Question 6

Married people are happier people, partly because they are less likely to suffer loneliness. Why else does marriage promote happiness?

Question 7

In the context of implications for better clinical practice, one important effect of hindsight is that it can

A) eliminate the tendency to see relationships that you expect to see.
B) be very helpful in developing hypotheses about personality traits.
C) lead to increased cautiousness and decreased confidence.
D) lead to both overconfidence and the tendency to judge yourself too harshly.

Question 8

According to Baretto et al. (2021), which of the following is LEAST likely to be lonely?

A) older people
B) men
C) younger people
D) women