Reading & Writing: Fill in the Blanks · Part 2: Reading

Behaviorist approach

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Choose the word for each blank.

Another way of looking at personality is the behaviorist approach. According to the behaviorists, the inner 1 of the consciousness are not important. Instead they believed that our behaviors, and therefore our 2 are learned primarily through our experiences. The theories of behaviorism arose through 3 largely on animals in which behaviors were learned through carefully controlled 4

Options for each gap (alphabetical)

  • 1 assumptions · facts · matters · missions
  • 2 appearances · durations · implications · personalities
  • 3 epitomes · experiments · imaginations · transtions
  • 4 conclusions · discriminations · judgements · stimuli

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Reading & Writing: Fill in the Blanks format (Pearson)

Pearson's name: Fill in the Blanks (Dropdown)

PromptText up to 200 words
Time to answerNot set per question (Part 2 lasts 23–30 minutes)
Skills assessedReading, Writing

How it is scored

  • Partial credit applies: a partly correct response still scores.

Source: Pearson, PTE Academic & UKVI test format, Part 2: Reading, checked 9 October 2026.