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