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