AP Psychology Motivation and Emotion

Personality

An Individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting.

Psycho dynamic Theory

Modern-Day approach that view personality with a focus on the unconscious and the importance of childhood experience.

Unconscious

Reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, memories driving personality according to psycho-dynamic theories.

EGO

Rational part of the personality that mediates between the impulsive id and the moralistic superego, operating on the reality principle.

Repression

Basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety arousing thoughts

Regression

Display immature that have relieves anxiety in the past.

Reaction Formation

Acting in a manner opposite of our true feelings.

Projection

When someone attributes his or her own feelings to another person or group.

Rationalization

Providing socially acceptable reasons for our inappropriate behavior.

Displacement

Negative emotions and focuses them on a different safer target.

Sublimation

Expression of impulses through indirect, socially acceptable ones.

Denial

Refusal to admit a particular aspect of reality

Protective Tests

ambiguous stimuli to uncover an individual’s unconscious thought, hidden emotions.

Humanistic Theory

view personality with a focus on the potential for healthy personal growth

Self-Actualization

Process of realizing ones potential and functioning at an optional level.