A few psychology questions i need help on please?

_____ is a cognitive distortion of the facts to make an event or impulse less threatening.


A.Denial


B.Rationalization


C.Sublimation


D.Stupidity





According to Carl Jung, another name for our "psychic inheritance:"


A.the Psychic Friend's Network


B.personal unconscious


C.archetypes


D.collective unconscious





"The behavior is followed by a consequence, and the nature of the consequence modifies the organism's tendency to repeat the beahvior in the future," refers to:


A.operant conditioning


B.reinforcing stimulus


C.memory and motivation


D.the law of cause and effect





According to B.F. Skinner, a behavior that is no longer followed by a reinforcing stimulus will:


A.become more difficult to manage


B.be missed by the organism


C.continue


D.become extinct





please if anyone can help me im stuck on these few questions so if you can help please do.

A few psychology questions i need help on please?
runefirenz had all the answers correct except for the first one:





Rationalization is a cognitive distortion of the facts to make an event or impulse less threatening - not Denial.
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_____ is a cognitive distortion of the facts to make an event or impulse less threatening:





A. Rationalization / Denial





According to Carl Jung, another name for our "psychic inheritance":





D.collective unconscious





"The behavior is followed by a consequence, and the nature of the consequence modifies the organism's tendency to repeat the behavior in the future," refers to:





A.operant conditioning





According to B.F. Skinner, a behavior that is no longer followed by a reinforcing stimulus will:





D.become extinct





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I was not at all sure on denial either, but at the time it did not seem like rationalization at all to me. So I went with a coin toss :)