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