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Positive Thinking
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Subject
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soft-skills
Instructions:
Answer 18 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. The tendency to expect the best possible outcome
Optomism
Self-defeating attitude
Personalizing
Dispute
2. Focusing on what is good about yourself - other people - and the world around you
Vicious cycle
Dispute
Positive thinking
Pessimism
3. A belief or opinion that predisposes you to act in a certain way
Attitude
Overgeneralizing
Vicious cycle
Judgementalism
4. Drawing broad negative conclusions based on limited evidence
Attitude
Worry
Overgeneralizing
Pessimism
5. Focusing on the flaws and problems in yourself - other people - and the world around you
Negative thinking
Self-defeating attitude
Positive thinking
ABCDE method
6. The aharing of distress - discomfort - or worry with another person
Dispute
Optomism
Vicious cycle
Complaint
7. A self-critical pattern of thought
ABCDE method
Vicious cycle
Personalizing
Cognitive distortion
8. Distress and anxiety caused by contemplating worst-case scenarios
Worry
Catastrophizing
Positive thinking
Complaint
9. The tendency to expect teh worst possible outcome
Dispute
Optomism
Positive thinking
Pessimism
10. The habit of condemning people or things because they are not the way you think they should be
Judgementalism
Negative thinking
Complaint
Personalizing
11. A negative attitude about yourself that dooms you to failure
Pessimism
Self-defeating attitude
Worry
Irrational belief
12. A chain of events in which one negative event causes another negative event
Complaint
Attitude
Vicious cycle
Depression
13. An approach to coping with negative thoughts and feelings disputing irrational beliefs
Pessimism
Worry
Cognitive distortion
ABCDE method
14. An illness characterized by profound feelings of sadness - hopelessness - and helplessness
Self-defeating attitude
Worry
Depression
Dispute
15. To confront irrational beliefs with the reality of the situation
Self-defeating attitude
Dispute
Optomism
Cognitive distortion
16. Dramatically exaggerating the negative consequences of any minor event
Catastrophizing
Positive thinking
Attitude
Negative thinking
17. A distorted - self-destructive idea or assumption that interferes with your thinking
Depression
Irrational belief
Attitude
Vicious cycle
18. Assuming that everything has to do with you somehow
Personalizing
Self-defeating attitude
ABCDE method
Attitude