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Unit 3
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
04/17/2011

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the belief that personality consists of facilities each located in a specific area of the brain
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phrenology
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personality is evidence by bumps on the skull
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phrenology
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the art of judging a persons personality from facial characteristics
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physiognomy
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the assessment of personality characteristics by studying a person's handwriting
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graphology
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no more real value according to psychologists than palm or tea leaf reading
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graphology
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plays a part in many snap judgements of personality
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posture and voice
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forms of expressive behavior
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stereotyped leader, stereotyped scholar
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upright and straight almost military bearing
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stereotyped leader
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stooped shoulder or poor posture
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stereotyped scholar
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personality based on body types
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morphology
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a method of rating in which each persons position on the scale is relative to that of other subjects in the group being considered
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relative rating scale
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a rating method in which the judge assigns scores to each individual by comparing him to a standard independent of the group being measured
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absolute rating scale
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a source of error in interviews and rating scales
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"halo effect"
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the tendency when rating an individual on a particular trait to be influenced by on'es opinion of some other trait or by the individual's personality as a whole
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"halo effect"
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preconceived notions as to how people of a given race, national origin, or orientation ought to appear or behave
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stereotype
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S.R.A.
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science research associates
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a check list of about 300 items which can be completed in a regular class period
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SRA youth inventory
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problems grouped in the following areas: my school, after high school, boy meets girl, health, things in general, getting along with others, about himself
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SRA youth inventory
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two forms of Bell Adjustment Inventory
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Adult and College & High School
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keys for home, health , social, and emotional adjustment
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High School & College form of Bell Adjustment Inventory
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home, health, social, emotional adjustment, vocational adjustment
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adult form of bell adjustment inventory
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Wrote the Mooney Problem Checklist
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Mooney and Gordon
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self-administered, untimed inventory composed of lists of problems
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Mooney Problem Checklist
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Four forms of Mooney Problem Checklist
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Junior High, High School, College, Adult
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has 140 items to which one responds yes, no, or ?
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Mooney Problem Checklist
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self-administered and takes no more than 25 minutes
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Mooney Problem checklist
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covers 10-13 traits that were formerly represented in three separate inventories
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Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament Survey
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300 affirmative statements which the examiner is to mark yes or no
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Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament Survey
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Three scoring methods
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Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament Survey
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tests psychiatric conditions
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MMPI
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instrument designed to provide, in a single test, scores on all the more important phases of personality
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MMPI
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covers subjects from the physical condition to the moral and social attitudes of the individual being tested
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MMPI
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Designed to aid in therapeutic work, but experience shows it is quite valuable for understanding normal people as well
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MMPI
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responses are summarized on a four validity scale arrangement
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MMPI
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use requires a professionally trained, experienced and sophisticated practitioner
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MMPI
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Abnormal scores of MMPI
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<30, >70
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difficult to take because there are no right or wrong answers
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projective device
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tap deeper levels of fears and needs than other measurement methods
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projective device
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scoring relies heavily on psychologists own judgement
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projective device
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name associated with inkblot
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Rorschach
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responses to each inkblot are scored in how many general categories
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5
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shape, color, and shading of inkblot
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determinates
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MAPS
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make a picture story test
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presents subjects with a tiny stage and backdrops and each is asked to choose one or more characters from a large group of cutout figures and then to place the chosen figures in position against the background and tell the story of the situation he or she is depicting
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MAPS
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similar to TAT
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MAPS
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involves projection of personal needs into culturally structured symbols
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Kahn TEst of Symbol Arrangement
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has been used extensively by the Air Force
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Kahn Test of Symbol ARrangement
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asked to tell what each symbol means to him and to arrange the symbols several times according to different sets of direction
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Kahn Test of Symbol Arrangement
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points which divide a distribution of measurement into 100 equal parts
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centile scores
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uses a profile on psychograph which shows the persons standing on each trait in terms of centile scores
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Kahn Test of Symbol Arrangement
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seizure disorder
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Van Gogh
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paranoid tendencies
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Betthoven, Rousseau
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was afraid someone was going to poison him
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Mozart
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always manic
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George III
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built pyramids out of skulls
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Tammerlaur (Timur)
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killed a bunch of sheep because he thought they were soldiers
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Ajax (fictional)
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seizures followed by hallucinations
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Hercules (fictional)
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had delusions of being a wolf
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NeBuchadnezzar
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lycanthropy
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thinking you are a wolf
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first alcoholic on record
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Cam Bysess
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manic episodes, king of israel
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Sol
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17th Century
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Enlightenment
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18th Century
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Reason
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19th century
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Progress
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20th Century
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Anxiety
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14 areas of personality are tested; 4 validity, 10 clinical
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MMPI
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try to see who will be the best leaders, one person is observer
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Leadership group discussion
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goal is to build something with crew, one person was a sabateur whose job was to make sure that the construction didnt happen
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OSS construction test
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big problem in formal interview
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faulty memory
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hard time expressing feelings
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obsessive compulsive personality disorder
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everything has to be perfect
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obsessive compulsive personality disorder
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may be linked to physical problems such as hypertension, GI problems
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Dependent PErsonality Disorder
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cannot make decisions
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dependent personality disorder
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always want help from others
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dependent personality disorder
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don't like social interaction
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avoidant personality disorder
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always afraid of failure
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avoidant personality disorder
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don't have empath or sympathy for others
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narcissistic
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in love with themselves
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narcissistic
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typically have jobs in the spotlight
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histrionic
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closely aligned with conversion disorders
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histrionic
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emotions seem shallow but are explosive
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histrionic
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very emotional and dramatic, love attention
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histrionic
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may be cutters, harmful behaviors like drinking
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borderline
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borderline used to imply line between...
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neurotic and psychotic
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clingy and demanding
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borderline
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very unstable and impulsive
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borderline
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children are said to have conduct disorder
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antisocial
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punishment has no effect
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antisocial
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psychopath and sociopath
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antisocial
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think they have a sixth sense, powers, past lives
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schizotype
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talk to themselves, laugh at wrong times
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schizotype
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DSM2 - simple type Schizophrenia and DSM 3 changed it to this
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Schizotype
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have very odd behaviors (gestures and mannerisms) may appear mentally ill
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Schizotype
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high percent in homeless
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Schizoid
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indifferent to criticisms or compliments
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Schizoid
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very shallow emotions
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schizoid
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take everything as a criticism, standoffish, humorless, suspicious, untrusting
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paranoid
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when do personality disorders usually show?
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adolescence or early adulthood
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believes personality sets like plaster and can't change
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william james
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card reading
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cartomancy
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ready moles on body
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moleosophy
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tealeaf reading
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tasseology
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still used in police work
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sheldon somatotype theory
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really skinny, shy, quiet, reserved not very adventurous, can't endure pain
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ectomorph, cerebrotonia, sheldon somatotype theory
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muscular, more criminals, active, outgoing, competitive, like to dress casual
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mesomorph, somatotonia, sheldon somatotype theory
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abdominal fat, like Santa, happy , likable, social, insecure
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endomorph, viscerotonia, sheldon somatotype theory
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physique temperament theory
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somatotype theory
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tall and slim, introvert, quiet
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asthenic/ leptosome, Kretschmer physique and character theory
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energetic, more agressive, outgoing, extrovert
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athletic, Kretshmer physique and character theory
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short and heavy, outgoing, extrovert
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pyknic, Kretschmer physique and character theory
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came up with introvert and extrovert
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Carl Jung
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feels neglected
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first born
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everything in life that impacts personality
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socio/cultural matrix
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says psychopaths are born that way
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Robert Hare
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start imitating grown ups
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12 months
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interact with older children before with children their own age b/c older one initiates it
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8-9 months
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crying to be picked up
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2 months, earliest evidence of interaction
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differentiates between human and nonhuman, smile and scowl
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3-4 months
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personality is based on
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social interaction and perception
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main guy of psychopathy
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Dr. Robert Hare
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