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| Differences in personality form one person to another |
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| Intrapersonal functioning |
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| Psychological process that take place within the person |
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| The quality of requiring few assumptions; simplicity |
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| A dynamic organization, inside the person, of psychophysical systems that create the person's character tics patterns of behaviour, thoughts and feelings |
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| A summary statement, a principle or set of principles about a class of events |
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| An in-depth study of one individual |
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| A relationship such that variation is one dimension produces variation in another |
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| An association large enough to have some practical importance |
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| Statistics used to describe or characterize some group |
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| A method in which people report repeatedly on their current experiences |
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| The response set of tending to say "yes" in response to any question |
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| The measuring of personality |
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| The accuracy with which a measure reflects the underlying concept |
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| The developing of a test by seeing which items distinguish between groups |
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| The degree to which a scale does not measure unintended qualities |
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| The use of data instead of theory to decide what should go into a measure |
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| Random influences that are incorporated in measurements |
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| The scale "looks" as if it measures what it's suppose to measure |
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| Measuring associations between the sense of self and aspects of personality that are implicit (hard to introspect about) |
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| Agreement among responses made to items of a measure |
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| A personality test measuring several aspects of personality on distinct sub scales |
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| An assessment in which someone else produces |
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| The defining of a concept by concrete events through which it's measured (or manipulated) |
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| The degree to which the measure predicts other variables it should predict |
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| The use of a theory to decide what you want to measure and then deciding how to measure it |
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| The response set of tending oneself favourably |
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| The pattern of situation-behaviour links the person has established over experiences in some specific domain |
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| A theory holding that a vulnerability stress creates problems in behaviour |
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| A dimension that underlies a set of interrelated measures, such as items on a self-report inventory |
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| A statistical procedure used to find basic dimensions underlying a set of measures |
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| A correlation between a single measure and the factor to which it's being related |
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| Pertaining to an approach that focuses on an individual person's uniqueness |
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| The idea that situations and personality interact to determine behaviour |
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| Personality patterns deriving from varying levels of dominance and love |
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| A person who prefers solitary activities |
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| An index of the importance of trait based on the number of words that refer to it |
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| Pertaining to an approach that focuses on norms and on variations among persons |
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| A factor that emerges from a factor analysis performed on a set pod previously found factors |
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| The idea that situations are the primary determinants of behaviour |
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| Continuous dimensions of personality on witch people vary |
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| Distinct and discontinuous categories of persons |
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| The projecting of a motive onto an ambiguous external stimulus via imagery |
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| The extent to witch a task provides information about something |
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| A motive assessed indirectly because it's relativity inaccessible to consciousness |
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| The degree to which an action can satisfy a particular need for a person |
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| Inhibited power motivation |
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| The condition of having more need for power than for affiliation but restraining its use |
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| Cognitive-affective clusters organized around readiness for a particular kind of experience |
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| The dispositional tendency toward a high or low level of some motive |
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| An unsatisfactory internal condition that motivates behaviour |
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| The need to overcome obstacles and attain goals |
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| The need to form and maintain relationships and to be with people |
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| The need for close communication and sharing with someone else |
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| The need to have influence over other people |
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| Study of the entire person |
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| That creepy old lady and young girl, you tell a story about it, it's suppose to project your true personality based on the story |
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| An external stimulus that increases level of a motive |
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