EVERYONE:
Personal
Growth Topics

TONY'S BASICS:
A Guide
to Feelings

COUPLES:
Analyze Your
Relationship

These questions illustrate the major points emphasized in past topics.

Some of these major points were surprising when you first read them
so you may get surprised again when check your answers!

Sometimes more than one answer is technically correct,
but one answer is always best.

CHOOSE THE "BEST" ANSWER.

From Knowing #1: Ways To Know

1) Which way to know is most often correct:

A) Logic based on observation.
B) Logic based on belief.
C) Emotions alone.
D) Emotions based on observation and belief.


2) Which kind of data was I referring to when I said "the problem is that so little can be known in this way"?:

A) Logic based on observation.
B) Logic based on belief.
C) Emotions alone.
D) Emotions based on observation and belief.

From Knowing #2: How Smart Are You?

3) Over a lifetime, our intelligence as measured by an I.Q. test:

A) Improves until old age.
B) Decreases steadily.
C) Increases steadily.
D) Stays about the same.


4) Which of these does therapy improve most noticeably:

A) I.Q.
B) E.Q.
C) Speed of comprehension.
D) Retention.


5) Considering the possible range for improvement in each of the ways of knowing, the best advice is:

A) Keep working at all of them.
B) Work to improve everything but I.Q.
C) Work to improve E.Q. only.
D) Accept yourself as you are.

From Knowing #3: Core Beliefs

6) Our core beliefs serve the purpose of:

A) Showing us what we know.
B) Showing us what we don't know.
C) Showing us how things work naturally.
D) Making us think we know things we don't know.

From Knowing #4: Educated Guesses

7) When we make guesses about people and relationships we are likely to be wrong about:

A) 10% of the time.
B) 20% of the time.
C) 30% of the time.
D) 50% of the time.

From Clients and Success In Therapy

8) The most important element of success in therapy is:

A) The chance to think clearly about problems.
B) The relationship between therapist and client.
C) The teaching the therapist offers.
D) The client's release of emotion.


9) Clients can maximize their success in therapy by:

A) Telling the full truth.
B) Expressing their emotions.
C) Knowing that life's problems are complex.
D) All of the above.

From Dreams

10) Dreams help us to:

A) Form new beliefs about how the world works.
B) Rediscover old beliefs about how the world works.
C) Defend old beliefs about how the world works.
D) Have emotions during sleep.


11) Since dreams are unique to each person, it's best to analyze your dreams on your own.

A) True.
B) False.


12) Which type of dream shows the strongest need for a therapist's help:

A) Those about your belief system.
B) Those which recur regularly.
C) Those which seem real.
D) Those about violence.

From Can You Make Someone Change?

13) It's hard to get anyone to change because:

A) Every cause has many effects.
B) Every effect has many causes.
C) Each cause and effect has emotional meaning.
D) All of the above.


14) People change most quickly when they realize:

A) Their decisions are up to them.
B) Their decisions are complex.
C) Their decisions affect themselves.
D) Their decisions affect others.

From How To Play

15) When someone doesn't respect the way we like to play, we should:

A) Think more about how our play looks to others.
B) Ask them how they play and give it a try.
C) Just realize that's the way it is.
D) Stop letting others see how we play.

From Stress and Lifestyle

16) "Medication and therapy aren't worth a dime unless ___________."

A) You improve how you live your life.
B) You feel better fast.
C) Your relationships improve.
D) You have less emotional pain.

From Bad Memories - What To Do About Them

17) Bad memories:

A) Make us doubt that we can protect ourselves.
B) Make us overlook current opportunities.
C) Make us feel "stuck" about getting things done.
D) All of the above.


18) Bad memories that keep coming back can be overcome by:

A) Letting time pass.
B) Taking back some decision we made back then.
C) Deciding it's best to forget it.
D) A, B, C or creating new memories.

From About Getting Close

19) The only thing we absolutely need from each other is:

A) Attention.
B) Touch.
C) Respect.
D) Love.

THE ANSWERS

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19
A	A	D	B	D	D	B	B	D	C	B	C	D	A	C	A	D	D	A

 

EVALUATING YOUR ANSWERS

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Enjoy Your Changes!

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Tony Schirtzinger, Therapist (Milwaukee, WI) 

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