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