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