Psychology Final WGU Velocity Vault: OA
Challenge Drills, PA Rubric Breakdowns,
Competency Acceleration & Power Study
Blueprint
Description
The WGU Velocity Vault is a high-impact academic
success resource designed specifically for students at
Western Governors University (WGU) who want to
move through courses with greater speed, stronger
understanding, and a more strategic approach to
learning. Built around WGU’s competency-based model,
this resource is designed to help students transform
scattered studying into a focused and results-driven
system that supports both academic performance and
long-term learning confidence.
This is not a traditional study guide filled with passive
notes and generic summaries. The Velocity Vault is
designed as a complete academic performance
framework that combines application-focused practice,
competency-based preparation, assessment strategy
,development, structured revision systems, and
productivity-focused learning methods. It is specifically
created for students who want to study smarter,
improve efficiency, and approach assessments with a
clear sense of direction and control.
Whether you are preparing for an Objective
Assessment, working through a complex Performance
Assessment, or trying to stay consistent in WGU’s self-
paced learning environment, this guide is built to help
you stay organized, confident, and academically
productive.
Enduring pattern of thoughts, emotions, & behaviors that characterizes how an individual
adapts to the world
personality
Instincts and an individual's reservoir of psychic energy - inborn, instinctive drives, source of
sexual energy
id
Tries to bring an individual pleasure within the norms of reality. - reality principle- partially
conscious
ego
Moral part of personality which people refer to as their conscience
superego
Channel crude desires into socially acceptable behavior
, sublimation
To transfer impulses from threatening object to less threatening one
displacement
Using self-deception to justify unacceptable behavior
rationalization
Pushing unacceptable impulses into the unconscious
repression
To act opposite your true feelings to hide them
reaction formation
Refusal to accept a bad reality- death, divorce, etc
denial
Individual under stress returns to behavior of earlier development
regression
Seeing your own unacceptable/undesirable characteristics in others
projection
Intense desire for a boy to replace his father and enjoy the affections of his mother
oedipus complex
His individual psychology said perfection was the primary motivator of the unconscious mind.
Alfred Adler
Claimed that security was the primary motivator of the unconscious mind- sociocultural
approach
Karen Horney
Emotionally laden ideas and images that have a rich and symbolic meaning for people
archetype
The impersonal, deepest layer of the unconscious mind passed through generations
collective unconscious
Challenge Drills, PA Rubric Breakdowns,
Competency Acceleration & Power Study
Blueprint
Description
The WGU Velocity Vault is a high-impact academic
success resource designed specifically for students at
Western Governors University (WGU) who want to
move through courses with greater speed, stronger
understanding, and a more strategic approach to
learning. Built around WGU’s competency-based model,
this resource is designed to help students transform
scattered studying into a focused and results-driven
system that supports both academic performance and
long-term learning confidence.
This is not a traditional study guide filled with passive
notes and generic summaries. The Velocity Vault is
designed as a complete academic performance
framework that combines application-focused practice,
competency-based preparation, assessment strategy
,development, structured revision systems, and
productivity-focused learning methods. It is specifically
created for students who want to study smarter,
improve efficiency, and approach assessments with a
clear sense of direction and control.
Whether you are preparing for an Objective
Assessment, working through a complex Performance
Assessment, or trying to stay consistent in WGU’s self-
paced learning environment, this guide is built to help
you stay organized, confident, and academically
productive.
Enduring pattern of thoughts, emotions, & behaviors that characterizes how an individual
adapts to the world
personality
Instincts and an individual's reservoir of psychic energy - inborn, instinctive drives, source of
sexual energy
id
Tries to bring an individual pleasure within the norms of reality. - reality principle- partially
conscious
ego
Moral part of personality which people refer to as their conscience
superego
Channel crude desires into socially acceptable behavior
, sublimation
To transfer impulses from threatening object to less threatening one
displacement
Using self-deception to justify unacceptable behavior
rationalization
Pushing unacceptable impulses into the unconscious
repression
To act opposite your true feelings to hide them
reaction formation
Refusal to accept a bad reality- death, divorce, etc
denial
Individual under stress returns to behavior of earlier development
regression
Seeing your own unacceptable/undesirable characteristics in others
projection
Intense desire for a boy to replace his father and enjoy the affections of his mother
oedipus complex
His individual psychology said perfection was the primary motivator of the unconscious mind.
Alfred Adler
Claimed that security was the primary motivator of the unconscious mind- sociocultural
approach
Karen Horney
Emotionally laden ideas and images that have a rich and symbolic meaning for people
archetype
The impersonal, deepest layer of the unconscious mind passed through generations
collective unconscious
