Motivation, Emotion and Personality

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Name the Psychological Approach: Emphasizes the importance of motives hidden in the unconscious mind that shapes our personalities

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Psychoanalytic or Psychodynamic

Front

Name the Psychological Approach: Rewards and punishments shape our actions, which shapes our personalities

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Behavioral

Front

Name the Psychological Approach: Our personal potential for growth: creativity, and spontaneity drives our personality

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Humanistic

Front

Name the Approach: Basic personality characteristics, such as friendliness, and aggression hold the essential components of our personality

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Trait Theory

Front

The part of the unconscious mind that contains our needs, drives, instincts, and repressed urges.

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Id

Front

The part of the personality that is the source of our morals and ethics. It counteracts the socially unacceptable impulses of our unconscious.

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Super Ego

Front

This part of our personality acts as our "true self," it is in touch with reality and strives to meet urges in a socially acceptable way.

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Ego

Front

Which Defense Mechanism: You fail a test and say “Those test questions were bad, they didn’t make any sense” even though you didn’t spend any time studying

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Rationalization

Front

Defense Mechanism: Refusing to accept the reality of something that makes you anxious.

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Denial

Front

Defense Mechanism: A cheating husband continually accuses his wife of cheating.

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Projection