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| According to Allport, the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his unique adjustments to the environment |
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| Refers to biologically based differences in personality |
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| What is the primary unit of personality? |
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| generalized and focalized neuropsychic system with the capacity to render many stimuli functionally equivalent and to initiate and guide consistent forms of adaptive and expressive behavior |
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| Trait that characterizes only the person who has it |
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| A trait characterizing many people |
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| Trait that only one person has |
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| Traits concerned with the style or tempo of a person's behavior |
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| One of the half dozen traits that best describe a particular person |
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| Trait that influences a limited range of behaviors |
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| Pervasive personality trait that dominates nearly everything that a person does; it is rare that people have this kind of trait |
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| Underlying philosophy of life |
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| Attitude or set of values, often religious, that gives coherence and meaning to life |
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| Extension of the sense self |
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| A quality of a normal adult defined as having a variety of interests that he can lose himself in, such as work, contemplation, recreation, and a loyalty to others |
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| A quality found in normal adults that involves sincere social interactions with others. |
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| Emotional security (self-acceptance) |
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| A quality of a normal adult typified by accepting yourself and having high self-esteem |
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| Realistic perception, skills & assignments |
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| A healthy adult that perceives the world realistically, but also in a positive way. |
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| Self-Objectification: Insight & Humor |
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| A healthy adult that has a healthy perspective of themselves, and being able to find humor in yourself. |
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| Latin phrase indicating that a person makes a unified whole out of many diverse aspects of personality |
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| All aspects of a person that make for unity; a person's sense of self or ego |
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| First stage of the propium developing in infancy discovering the bodily self; i.e. putting your hand in your mouth |
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| Second stage of propium development in which the child (age 1 to 2) recognizes himself as a separate person & recognizing individuality |
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| Stage of propium occurring from age 2 to 3 when the child begins developing a self-esteem. Capacity for pride emerges, as well as capacity for humiliation and selfishness |
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| Stage of propium from ages 3 to 4 when the child begins to identify with objects and personal belongings, such as toys |
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| Stage of propium that includes both evaluation of our present abilities, status and roles and our aspirations for the future; occurs between ages 4 to 6 |
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| Stage of propium during ages 6 to 12 in which a child beings problem solving and the ability to solve problems is important for self-image |
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| Stage of the propium that begins in adolescence when effort is put into things based on sense of selfhood and identity |
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| Stage of propium occurring in adulthood when an adult integrates the self into a unified whole |
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| Extrinsic religious orientation |
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| Attitude in which religion is seen as a means to a person's other goals (i.e. using church for social status) |
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| Intrinsic Religious Orientation |
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| Attitude in which religion is accepted for its own sake rather than a means to an end |
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| To study traits in individuals |
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| To study common traits that many people have |
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| measure of the association between two variables, which 0 indicates no association and +1 or -1 a strong association |
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| a chart of the correlations between all pairs of a set of variables |
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| Statistical procedure for determining a smaller number of dimensions in a data set from a large number of variables |
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| Data obtained from self-reports or peer questionnaires concerning personality |
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| Data collected from objective tests, such as reaction times |
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| Objective information about the history of an individual (i.e. GPA, reviews of job performance from employers) |
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| Traits as defined simply at the level of observable behavior |
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| Basic, underlying personality traits |
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| Cattell's questionnaire designed to measure the major source traits of normal personality |
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| Pattern of a person's scores on several parts of a personality test |
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| Second-order factor analysis |
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| Factor analysis in which the data are factor scores (rather than raw data); produces more general personality factors; comparable with the Big 5 |
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| Trait that defines various types of intelligence and determine how effectively a person words toward a desired goal |
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| Traits that are largely constitutional and a source trait that determines the general style and tempo with which a person carries out whatever he or she does |
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| Traits that are motivational; they provide direction and energy in life; traits that make you decide where and what to do in life. |
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| Comparable to animal instincts and involve an innate reactivity toward a goal, though stimuli and means are learned; a constitutional trait |
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| Environmentally-molded source trait; include sentiments and attitudes |
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| a more general metaerg; formed early and generally unwavering; deep underlying structure of personality; includes the master motive |
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| a more specific response to a stimulus situation |
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| Pattern of interrelationships amoung ergs, metaergs, and sentiments |
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| Learning behaviors that satisfy more than one motivation |
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| Group (i.e. national) differences in personality |
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| Multiple Abstract Variance Analysis |
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| MAVA; statistical technique for assessing how much of a trait is determined by heredity and how much by environment |
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| extent to which a trait is influenced by genetics |
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| Psychoticism, neuroticism, extraversion |
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| Factor related to noncomformity or social deviance |
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| the extent to which your body is dominated by soft roundness |
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| Relative predominance of muscle, bone, connective tissue; the hard part of the physique |
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| Relative predominance of linearity; frail and delicate |
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| This person loves food, comfort, people, and is very laid back; associated with endomorphics |
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| This person is willing to take risks, indifferent to pain, loves competition, and power; doesn't care about the approval of others; associated with mesomorphs |
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| Tense, withdrawn, restrained, wound up tightly and held back, likes privacy and secrecy, not sociable, highly sensitive to pain; associated with ectomorphs |
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| correlated; one source trait could be correlated with another |
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| how you score on one dimension has nothing to do with how you score on another dimension |
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