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Thinking Errors
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Subject
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soft-skills
Instructions:
Answer 26 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. When people make excuses for something they don't want to - or didn't do.
Victim Playing
Excuse Making
Lying by Omission
Vagueness
2. When we are 'extra nice' to someone in order to get something.
Ingratiating
Justifying
Refocusing
Minimizing
3. Calling people names - mocking someone etc. for the purpose of tearing down.
Rationalizing
Making Fools of
Tearing People Down
Super Optimism
4. Shifting the attention from oneself to someone/something else.
Vagueness
Anger
Excuse Making
Justifying
5. Categorical thinking ('Ridged')
Ingratiating
Justifying
Power Play
Black and White Thinking
6. Flies in the face of all of reality (ie: the belief that we can stop our destructive behavior on our own).
Lying by Assent
Super Optimism
Making Fools of
Tearing People Down
7. Characterized by arrogant assertion of unproved or unprovable principles
Refocusing
Victim Playing
Dogmatic
Black and White Thinking
8. Trying to gain power by acting out.
Minimizing
Power Play
Assuming
Image
9. Failing to admit their weaknesses and reality.
Vagueness
Super Optimism
Denial
Anger
10. Bragging... making their paralysis seem grandious. Inflated view of yourself/and abilities.
Grandiosity
Rationalizing
Tearing People Down
Anger
11. Committing a lie.
Assuming
Lying by Commission
Refocusing
Rationalizing
12. When you lie by 'going along' with a lie.
Super Optimism
Lying by Assent
Power Play
Excuse Making
13. Shifting the attention from oneself to someone/something else.
Tearing People Down
Rationalizing
Black and White Thinking
Refocusing
14. Taking responsibility off oneself and putting it on someone/something else.
Blamming
Grandiosity
Vagueness
I'm Unique
15. Ommitting/not stating something.
Lying by Omission
Lying by Assent
Anger
Tearing People Down
16. Inconsistant lifestyle.
Super Optimism
Lying by Commission
Justifying
Fragmented Personality
17. When you use anger to manipulate or control other people.
Excuse Making
Anger
Lying by Omission
Justifying
18. Shutting down.
Power Play
Minimizing
Lying by Commission
Closed Channel
19. Not powerless... but act as though they are powerless.
Rationalizing
Victim Playing
Minimizing
Excuse Making
20. Tries to look acceptable by not giving - or giving little information.
Closed Channel
Ingratiating
Making Fools of
Vagueness
21. Supplying an acceptable reason why a wrong behavior was acceptable (Past behavior).
Fragmented Personality
Justifying
Power Play
Rationalizing
22. Making an assumption that someone will say/do something.
Blamming
Assuming
Minimizing
Lying by Omission
23. Acting out in certain ways in order to look 'cool.' Maintaining a sense of 'being something.'
Rationalizing
Victim Playing
Blamming
Image
24. Believing the lie that nobody can relate with us.
25. To attempt at making someone else look foolish.
Image
Grandiosity
Making Fools of
Super Optimism
26. Making the consequences (or behavior) smaller than they really are... downplaying.
Minimizing
Rationalizing
Lying by Omission
Dogmatic