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| says that personality development is shaped primarily by three forces: environmental conditions, cognitive-personal factors, and behavior, which all interact to influence how we evaluate, interpret, organize, and appy information. |
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| include our beliefs, expectations, values, intentions, and social roles. |
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| include our emotional makeup and our biological and genetic influences. |
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| include our social, political, and cultural influences, as we as our particular learning experiences. |
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| Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory |
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| assues that personality development, growth, and change are influenced by four distinctively human cognitive processes: highyl developed language ability, observational learning, purposeful behavior, and self-analysis. |
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| refers to our beliefs about how much control we have over situations or rewards. |
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| Internal Locus of Control |
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| we have control over situations and rewards. |
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| External Locus of Control |
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| we do not have control over situations and rewards and that events outside ourselves determine what happens. |
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| refers to voluntarily postponing an immediate reward and continuing to complete some task with the promise of a future reward. |
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| refers to ur personal beliefs regarding how capable we are in controlling events and situations in our lives, such as performing or completeing sepcific tasks and behaviors. |
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| an approach for analyzing the structure of personality by measuring, identifying, and classifying similarities and differences in personality characteristics or traits. |
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| a realtively stable and enduring tendency to behave in a particular way. |
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| a complicated statistical method that finds relationships among many different or diverse items and allows them to be grouped together. |
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| organizes personality traits and describes differences in personality using five categories, wich are openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. |
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| Person-Situation Interaction |
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| means that a person's behavior results from an interaction betwee his/her traits and the effects of being in of responding to cues from a particular situation. |
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| means that the same group of individuals is studied repeatedly at many different points in time. |
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| the study of how inherited or genetic factors influence and interact with psychological factors to shape our personality, intelligence, emotions, and motivation and also how we behave, adapt, and adjust to our environments. |
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| a statistical measure that estimates how much of some cognitive, personality, or behavioral trait is influenced by genetic factors. |
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| Quantum Personality Change |
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| refers to making a very radical or dramatic shift in one's personality, beliefs, or values in minutes, hours, or a day. |
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| involve asking each individual tha same set of relatively narrow and focused questions so that the same information is obtained from everyone. |
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| refers to your disagreeing with another person who opposes your getting some wish, goal, or expectation. |
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| places a high priority on attaining personal goals and striving for personal satisfaction, often by being competitive and assertive. |
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| places a high priority on group goals and norms over personal goals and values; individuals in these cultures work to control their behaviors and maintain harmonious relationships with others. |
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| Objective Personality Tests |
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| consist of specific written statements that require individuals to indicate, for example, by checking "true" or "false," whether the statements do or do not apply to them. |
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| Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMIP-2) |
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| a true-false self-report questionaire that consists of 567 statements describing a wide range of normal and abnormal behaviors; its purpose is to measure the personality stlye and emotional adjustment in individuals with mental illness. |
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| refers to the method of listing many general traits so that almost everyone wo reads the horoscope thinkgs that these traits apply specifically to him/her, but they generally apply to everyone. |
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