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