PSYA02H3 Study Guide - Anal Stage, Latency Stage, Oral Stage
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Personalityis an individual"s characteristic style of behaving, thinking, and feeling. Thematic apperception test (tat)is a projective personality test in which respondents reveal underlying motives, concerns, and the way they see the social world through the stories they make up about ambiguous pictures of people. A trait as a relatively stable disposition to behave in a particular and consistent way. The behavioral activation system (bas), essentially a go system, activates approach behavior in response to the anticipation of reward. The behavioral inhibition system (bis), a stop system, inhibits behavior in response to stimuli signaling punishment. According to this approach, personality is formed by needs, strivings, and desires largely operating outside of awareness motives that can produce emotional disorders. Defense mechanisms, which are unconscious coping mechanisms that reduce anxiety generated by threats from unacceptable impulses. Rationalization is a defense mechanism that involves supplying a reasonable-sounding explanation for unacceptable feelings and behavior to conceal (mostly from oneself) one"s underlying motives or feelings.