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