Psychological phenomena in healthcare Quiz

Test your knowledge of behavioral economics with these questions on psychological phenomena affecting healthcare decisions.

#1

Which psychological phenomenon refers to the tendency for people to believe that they are better than the average person?

False consensus effect
Illusory superiority
Barnum effect
Halo effect
#2

Which psychological phenomenon involves the tendency to overestimate the likelihood of rare events?

Availability heuristic
Anchoring effect
Confirmation bias
Base rate fallacy
#3

What psychological phenomenon describes the tendency to attribute one's successes to internal factors and failures to external factors?

Self-serving bias
Fundamental attribution error
Confirmation bias
Hindsight bias
#4

What psychological phenomenon involves the tendency to rely too heavily on the first piece of information encountered when making decisions?

Halo effect
Availability heuristic
Anchoring effect
Recency effect
#5

What psychological phenomenon involves the tendency for individuals to conform to the majority opinion, even if it goes against their own beliefs?

Groupthink
Social loafing
Deindividuation
Conformity
#6

What term describes the psychological phenomenon where individuals experience discomfort when their thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes are inconsistent with each other?

Cognitive dissonance
Confirmation bias
Fundamental attribution error
Availability heuristic
#7

In the context of healthcare, what is the term for the psychological phenomenon where individuals understate the risks associated with their behaviors?

Risk aversion
Optimism bias
Negativity bias
Framing effect
#8

What psychological phenomenon involves individuals attributing their success to their own abilities and failures to external factors?

Self-serving bias
Fundamental attribution error
Confirmation bias
Hindsight bias
#9

In the context of healthcare, what term describes a psychological phenomenon where patients experience symptoms of a disease simply because they believe they have it?

Hypochondria
Nocebo effect
Placebo effect
Somatization disorder
#10

Which psychological phenomenon refers to the tendency for individuals to attribute their own negative actions to external factors and positive actions to internal factors?

Self-fulfilling prophecy
Actor-observer bias
Recency effect
False consensus effect
#11

Which psychological phenomenon involves the tendency to focus on the most salient or emotionally striking features of a situation, rather than the overall context?

Representativeness heuristic
Sunk cost fallacy
Affect heuristic
Attentional bias
#12

In the context of healthcare, what term describes the psychological phenomenon where individuals experience a reduction in pain or improvement in symptoms due to the belief that they have received treatment, even if the treatment is a placebo?

Hypochondria
Nocebo effect
Placebo effect
Somatization disorder
#13

In the context of healthcare, what term describes the psychological phenomenon where individuals experience worsening symptoms due to the belief that they have received harmful treatment, even if the treatment is inert?

Hypochondria
Nocebo effect
Placebo effect
Somatization disorder
#14

Which psychological phenomenon refers to the tendency for individuals to attribute others' behaviors to internal traits or characteristics, while attributing their own behaviors to external factors?

Self-fulfilling prophecy
Actor-observer bias
Recency effect
False consensus effect
#15

Which psychological phenomenon involves individuals' tendency to focus on the most emotionally salient aspects of a situation rather than the overall context?

Representativeness heuristic
Sunk cost fallacy
Affect heuristic
Attentional bias

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