Personal Growth 120: Chapter 6 – Gaining Self-Awareness Practice Quiz
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Leverrier predicted that an invisible planet was pulling the planet Uranus off its predicted course around the sun. Likewise, human beings are pulled off course by the invisible forces of their _____.
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Unconscious minds
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Many people sabotage their goals and dreams by unconsciously choosing actions, thoughts, and/or emotions that get them off course from their goals and dreams. (T/F)
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True
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When Creators are off course, they tend to deny it, make excuses, blame others, or give up. (T/F)
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False
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One characteristic of Creators is they are able to recognize and acknowledge when they are off course. (T/F)
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True
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The story of Jerome, the accounting student, illustrates that once a person has a clear goal he will not get off course. (T/F)
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False
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Eric Berne, the creator of a mode of counseling called Transactional Analysis, referred to our invisible inner forces as . . .
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Scripts
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As part of our script, each of us has developed three kinds of habit patterns: behaviors, thoughts, and emotions. (T/F)
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True
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Our habit patterns are motivated by our unconscious core _____.
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Beliefs
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We seem to create our scripts as a result of . . .
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a. How others responded to us b. What significant adults said to us c. Observing the behavior of significant adults in our lives
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The purpose of our scripts is to maximize our pain and minimize our pleasure. (T/F)
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False (The opposite is true)
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Diana, the student in the author's writing course, had a script from her childhood that said her brain didn't work well. (T/F)
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True
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When our core beliefs about ourselves, about other people, or about the world are inaccurate, they can sabotage our success. (T/F)
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True
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Diana's core beliefs about her inability to think caused her to hear what she expected to hear rather than what her teacher actually said. (T/F)
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True
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Although it is not easy, human beings can revise their limiting beliefs and change their self-defeating habit patterns. (T/F)
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True
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The parts of our scripts that are available to our conscious minds are our patterns of self-defeating actions, thoughts, and emotions. By revising these three patterns we can help revise our limiting core _____.
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Beliefs
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Hard skills are the special-knowledge skills that you've learned to do throughout your life: for example, swimming, writing, solving math problems, building a house, creating a budget, backpacking, playing chess, and reading. (T/F)
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True
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Soft skills are the ones you have developed to cope with life: for example, making choices as a Creator, motivating yourself, being industrious, developing relationships, and believing in yourself. (T/F)
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True
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The Holland Code is an inventory of personal preferences that can assist you in understanding your outdated scripts. (T/F)
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False
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If you have not yet declared a major, where can you go on campus to take one of the inventories recommended in On Course?
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The Career Center
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Becoming aware of the match between _____ improves your chances of finding a satisfying career match.
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Your interests and your personality
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According to psychologist Virginia Satir, we are all living by rules, though we may not be aware of them. (T/F)
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True
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All of the unconscious rules that we live by need to be revised. (T/F)
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False (some of our unconscious rules are helpful)
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The author of On Course has polled thousands of college instructors who identify three behaviors that their most successful students do consistently. Which of the following is NOT one of these top three behaviors of successful students (though it may be a good rule nonetheless)?
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Seek help from tutors However, three success rules you should observe: Rule 1: I show up Rule 2: I do my best work Rule 3: I participate actively
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At Baltimore City Community College, a study found that, on average, the more classes that students missed, the higher their grades were, especially in introductory courses. (T/F)
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False
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A personal rule is your conscious intention. You may need to break one of your rules if something of a higher _____ conflicts with it.
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Value
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Three factors determine how well you score on tests: preparation, test-taking skills, and prior feedback. (T/F)
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True
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Test scores are not a good way of determining if you are off course. (T/F)
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False
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Visualizing yourself successfully taking a test prepares you to think, feel, and act positively during that test. (T/F)
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True
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It's a good idea to forgo a full night's sleep before a test and use every available minute for preparation. (T/F)
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False
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Before you begin answering questions on a test, take a few minutes to preview it. (T/F)
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True
