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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Learning through association	Classical Conditioning	87%
Learning through positive and negative reinforcement	Operant Conditioning	85%
When a behaviour is rewarded	Positive Reinforcement	75%
When a behaviour avoids something unpleasant	Negative Reinforcement	74%
Imposing a painful stimulus	Punishment	57%
One of the 3 structures of personality and is associated with pleasure-seeking	Id	34%
One of the 3 structures of personality and is associated with morality	Super ego	34%
A stimulus that does not cause the target to react or respond	Neutral Stimulus	33%
Psychosexual stage which focuses on pleasure within the mouth	Oral	33%
Psychosexual stage which focuses on pleasure on the anus	Anal	32%
Psychosexual stage which focuses on pleasure on the genital area	Phallic	29%
The part of the mind that we have no awareness	Unconscious	29%
One of the 3 structures of personality and has to come to a compromise between the other two	Ego	27%
Copying the behaviour of others	Imitation	27%
When the neutral stimulus causes the same response as the unconditional stimulus on its own because they have become 'paired'	Conditioned Stimulus	25%
The experience boys have when they reach the 3rd psychosexual stage	Oedipus complex	25%
The experience girls have when they reach the 3rd psychosexual stage	Electra complex	23%
Refusing to acknowledge some aspect of reality	Denial	21%
Forcing a distressing memory out of the conscious mind	Repression	21%
The name of the experiment which tested for operant conditioning and involved rats	Skinner Box	21%
Twins that share 100% of their genes	Monozygotic	20%
A mental set of beliefs and expectations that influence cognitive processing. They develop from experience	Schema	20%
A person's genetic makeup	Genotype	19%
When a person associates themselves with a role model and wants to be like them	Identification	18%
The way a person's genes are expressed physically and behaviourally can be affected by environmental factors	Phenotype	18%
Learning from seeing the model being reinforced or punished. Not directly experienced by the observer	Vicarious Reinforcement	18%
The extent to which we notice certain behaviours	Attention	17%
Transferring feelings from the true source of distress onto a substitute target	Displacement	16%
The belief that we determine our own development are and responsible for our choices	Free will	16%
The person we would like to be	Ideal self	16%
The desire to perform the behaviour. This depends on whether it has seen to be rewarded or punished	Motivation	16%
A stage in the chart which includes breathing, food, water, sleep	Physiological	16%
How well the behaviour is remembered	Retention	16%
A therotical model used by the congitive approach which contains sensory memory, short term memory and long term memory	Multi-Store Model	14%
When there is a big gap between the person you want to be and the person you think you are	Incongruence	13%
Psychosexual where earlier conflicts are repressed	Latency	13%
Cognitive factors that influence learning (E.g. Attitudes, Attention , Emotion, Motivations)	Mediational Processes	13%
A stage in the chart which includes morality, creativity, problem solving, lack of prejudice	Self actualisation	13%
In a childhood where a parent could love you no matter what	Unconditional positive regard	13%
A chart which displays 4 lower levels of deficency needs and a higher level of growth needs	Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs	12%
Imitating the behaviour of a particular model or a person can model a behaviour that may be copied by an observer	Modelling	12%
A stage in the chart which includes security of body, of employment, of family, of morality	Safety	12%
The scientific study of biological structures in the brain that underpin cognitive processes	Cognitive Neuroscience	11%
A stage in the chart which includes friendship, family, sexual intimacy (Two names eg. __/__ )	Love/Belonging	11%
The belief that we are born we are a "blank slate"	Tabula Rasa	11%
Where there are certain rules to be loved	Conditions of worth	10%
Consequence of unresolved conflict	Fixation	10%
We are able to focus on improving ourselves when certain needs are met	Self actualisation	10%
A stage in the chart which includes self esteem, confidence, achievement, respect of others	Esteem	9%
The conditioned response is not permanent and if the conditioned stimulus is not shown alongside the unconditional stimulus after a couple of times the conditioned repsonse is not produced.	Extinction	9%
These are used to help for a compromise between the structures of personality	Defence Mechanisms	7%
When the target is able to distinguish between the conditioned stimulus and a similar stimulus	Discrimination	6%
When a conditioned response is triggered from a similar conditioned stimulus	Generalisation	6%
If the conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus are again linked this is learnt much quicker than the first time	Spontaneous Recovery	5%
The person we think we are	Concept of self	3%
Person centered therapy	Rogerian Therapy	3%
When you turn the feeling into its opposite	Reaction formation	2%
Measures recognition of past information using electrical brain wave responses to words, phrases or pitcures.	Brain fingerprinting	1%
Psychsexual stage where sexual desires become conscious	Gential	1%
The ability of the observer to perform the behaviour	Motor Production	1%
Twins that share 50% of their genes	Dizyogotic	0%