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