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