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