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