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Personality and Motivation Psychology Flashcards

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This 57-card flashcard set covers personality psychology and motivation for grades 10–12 and college students. It includes psychodynamic theories, the Big Five personality model, humanistic approaches, social-cognitive perspective, drive-reduction theory, Self-Determination Theory, and emotion. Use it for AP Psychology exam prep, vocabulary review, or as a comprehensive self-study guide to personality and motivation concepts.

Subject:
Social Studies
Topic:
Psychology
Grade Level:
10th – 12th Grades
Updated March 2026

Terms in This Set

  • Personality
  • psychodynamic theories
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Unconscious
  • Free Association
  • Id
  • Ego
  • Superego
  • defense mechanisms
  • Repression
  • collective unconscious
  • terror-management theory
  • Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
  • Projective Tests
  • Rorschach inkblot test
  • humanistic theories
  • self-actualization
  • self-transcendence
  • unconditional positive regard
  • self-concept
  • Trait
  • personality inventory
  • MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory)
  • empirically derived test
  • Big Five Factors
  • social-cognitive perspective
  • behavioral approach
  • reciprocal determinism
  • Self
  • spotlight effect
  • self-esteem
  • self-efficacy
  • self-serving bias
  • narcissism
  • Individualism
  • Collectivism
  • motivation
  • instinct
  • physiological need
  • drive-reduction theory
  • Homeostasis
  • incentive
  • Yerkes-Dodson Law
  • affiliation need
  • Self-Determination Theory
  • intristic motivation
  • extrinsic motivation
  • ostracism
  • achievement motivation
  • grit
  • Glucose
  • set point
  • basal metabolic rate
  • emotion
  • polygraph
  • facial feedback effect
  • behavior feedback effect

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