PSYA02H3 Study Guide - Projective Test, Rorschach Test, Thematic Apperception Test
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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 big five,as they are affectionately called, are the traits of the five-factor model: conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness to experience, and extraversion. 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. 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.
