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| The underlying causes within the person of individual behavior and experience |
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| theoretical task of identifying the units of personality, with particular emphasis on the differences between people |
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| the motivational aspect of personality |
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| formation or change (of personality) over time |
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| qualities that make one person different from another |
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| a category of people with similar characteristics |
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| measures that permit expression of various amounts of something, such as a trait |
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| personality characteristic that makes one person different from another and/or that describes an individual's personality |
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| a statistically derived, quantitative dimension of personality that is broader than most traits |
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| involving comparisons with other individuals; research based on groups of people |
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| focusing on one individual |
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| coping with the external world |
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| consistent styles of behavior and emotional reactions present from early life onward, presumably caused by biological factors |
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| the method of knowing based on systematic observation |
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| the assumption that phenomena have causes that can be discovered by empirical research |
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| a conceptual tool, consisting of systematically organized constructs and propositions, for understanding certain specified phenomena |
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| a concept used in a theory |
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| procedure for measuring a theoretical construct |
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| theoretical statement about relationships among theoretical constructs |
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| a prediction to be tested by research |
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| based on scientific observations |
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| the ability of a theory to be tested by empirical procedures, resulting in confirmation or disconfirmation |
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| evidence agasint a theory; observations that contradict the predictions of a hypothesis |
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| the ability of a theory to explain a broad variety of observations |
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| the ability of a theory to guide practical uses |
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| research intended for practical use |
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| research intended to develop theory |
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| implicit theories of personality |
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| ideas about personality that are held by ordinary people (not based on formal theory) |
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| consistency, as when a measurement is repeated at another time or by another observer, with similar results |
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| desirable characteristic of a test, indicating it actually does measure what it is intended to measure |
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| the usefulness of a theoretical term, evidenced by an accumulation of research findings |
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| research method that examines the relationships among measurements |
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| true experimental research |
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| research strategy that manipulates a cause to determine its effect |
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| in an experiment, the cause that is manipulated by the researcher |
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| in an experiment, the group exposed to the experimental treatment |
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| in an experiment, the group not exposed to the experimental treatment |
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| the effect in an experimental study |
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| in research, a measurement of something across various people (or times or situations), which takes on different values |
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| an intensive investigation of a single individual |
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| the application of a personality theory to the study of an individual's life; different from a case study because of its theoretical emphasis |
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| combining ideas from a variety of theories |
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| a basic theoretical model, shared by various theorists and researchers |
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