Motivation, Emotion, and Personality

The biological, emotional, cognitive, or social forces that activate and direct behavior

• Motivation

• Repression

• Personality

• Conscientiousness

Refusal to accept the weight of reality

• Neuroticism

• Ego

• Denial

• Repression

Channelling negative emotions into something constructive

• Super ego

• Rationalization

• Displacement

• Sublimation

The unconscious side to get to our best needs (selfishness, sexual desire, and pleasure/aggressive drive)

• ID

• Extraversion

• Agreeableness

• Face association

The individual differnces in the propensity to follow socially prescribed norms for impulse control

• Displacement

• Defense Mechanisms

• Arousal Theory

• Conscientiousness

Apparent logical reason that is given to justify behavior that is motivated by unconscious instinctual impulses

• Intellectualization

• Rationalization

• Super ego

• Extraversion

Protects you from aggressive impulses- you know there will be judgement or consequences

• Displacement

• Regression

• Openness

• Intrinsic

What your conscious is doing (persona)

• Repression

• Personality

• Fursona 🐴

• Ego

Ways we protect ourselves operating on an unconscious level

• Drive Reduction Theory

• Defense Mechanisms

• Denial

• Extrinsic

Medium level of arousal fro optimal performance (happy medium)

• Incentive Theory

• Yerkes-Dodson Model

• Maslows Hierarchy of Needs

• Motivation