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