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Bad Thinking
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Subject
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logic-and-reasoning
Instructions:
Answer 11 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Our reasoning sometimes is mislead from the truth and it inclines us to see our own society and its beliefs in a more favorable light than the evidence may warrant.
Rationalization
Loyalty
Self-deception
Supression/Denial
2. Consciously believing what a deeper level we know to questionable.
Superstitions
Prejudice
Supression/Denial
Self-deception
3. Others we can blame for our own troubles and mistakes- when in fact we ourselves may bear a large measure of responsibility.
Scapegoats
Self-deception
Rationalization
Supression/Denial
4. Thinking ill of others without sufficient warrant.
Self-deception
Partisan mind-set
Scapegoats
Prejudice
5. Believing what we would like to be true - no matter what the evidence.
Superstitions
Wishful thinking
Provincialism
Prejudice
6. We believe them on the basis of insufficient and - frequently - biased samples from which all negative evidence has been eliminated. (e.g - Overlooking the fact that good things sometimes happen on Fri. the 13th and bad things on other days.)
Superstitions
Supression/Denial
Partisan mind-set
Herd Instinct
7. Tends to keep our beliefs - and thus our actions - within the bounds of what society as a whole will accept. (e.g - Failing to notice the undemocratic and nasty things our own government does on the international scene.)
Prejudice
Self-deception
Herd Instinct
Partisan mind-set
8. We engage in this psychological ploy when we ignore or deny unpleasant evidence so as to feel justified in doing what we want to do or in believing what we find comfortable to believe.Most common form of self- deception.
Superstitions
Herd Instinct
Scapegoats
Rationalization
9. Viewing everything in terms of 'us against them' or 'my right opinions against your wrong ones'
Partisan mind-set
Provincialism
Loyalty
Rationalization
10. A natural tendency to identify with the ideas - interests - and kinds of behavior favored by those with which we identify. (e.g - black with blacks - women with women)
Provincialism
Herd Instinct
Partisan mind-set
Wishful thinking
11. Avoid stressful thoughts by either not thinking about them or more commonly by thinking non stressful thoughts/We change our interpretation of the situation to perceive it as less threatening.
Provincialism
Partisan mind-set
Superstitions
Supression/Denial