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Personality Psych Ch 1
Source: Perspectives on Personality 6th Ed. Charles S. Carver & Michael F. Scheier
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Psychology
Undergraduate 2
09/23/2010

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Term
individual differences
Definition
Differences in personality from one person to another.
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intrapersonal functioning
Definition
Psychological processes that take place within the person.
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metatheory
Definition
A set of orienting assumptions about reality that provides guidelines for what kinds of ideas to use to create theories.
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parsimony
Definition
The quality of requiring few assumptions; simplicity.
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personality
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A dynamic organization, inside the person, of psychophysical systems that create the person's characteristic patterns of behavior, thoughts, and feelings.
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theory
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A summary statement, a principle or set of principles about a class of events.
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