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