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