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Thinking Errors

Subject : 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. Flies in the face of all of reality (ie: the belief that we can stop our destructive behavior on our own).






2. When you lie by 'going along' with a lie.






3. Committing a lie.






4. Acting out in certain ways in order to look 'cool.' Maintaining a sense of 'being something.'






5. Bragging... making their paralysis seem grandious. Inflated view of yourself/and abilities.






6. Supplying an acceptable reason why a wrong behavior was acceptable (Past behavior).






7. Not powerless... but act as though they are powerless.






8. Believing the lie that nobody can relate with us.


9. Categorical thinking ('Ridged')






10. Taking responsibility off oneself and putting it on someone/something else.






11. Characterized by arrogant assertion of unproved or unprovable principles






12. When we are 'extra nice' to someone in order to get something.






13. Calling people names - mocking someone etc. for the purpose of tearing down.






14. Ommitting/not stating something.






15. Shutting down.






16. Making an assumption that someone will say/do something.






17. When you use anger to manipulate or control other people.






18. Inconsistant lifestyle.






19. Shifting the attention from oneself to someone/something else.






20. Trying to gain power by acting out.






21. Tries to look acceptable by not giving - or giving little information.






22. When people make excuses for something they don't want to - or didn't do.






23. Shifting the attention from oneself to someone/something else.






24. Failing to admit their weaknesses and reality.






25. To attempt at making someone else look foolish.






26. Making the consequences (or behavior) smaller than they really are... downplaying.