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| A person's unique and relatively stable behavior patterns |
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| Personal characteristics that have been judged or evaluated; a person's desirable or undesirable qualities |
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| The hereditary aspects of personality, including sensitivity, activity levels, prevailing mood, irritability, and adaptability. |
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| A stable, enduring quality that a person shows in most situations |
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| The study of inherited behavioral traits and tendencies |
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| A style of personality defined by a group of related traits |
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| A person whose attention is focused inward; a shy, reserved, self-centered person |
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| A person whose attention is directed outward; a bold, outgoing person |
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| A person's perception of his or her own personality traits |
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| Regarding oneself as a worthwhile person; a positive evaluation of oneself |
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| A system of concepts, assumptions, ideas, and principles used to understand and explain personality |
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| A psychologist interested in classifying, analyzing, and interrelating traits to understand personality |
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| Personality traits that are shared by most members of a particular culture |
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| Personality traits that define a person's unique individual qualities |
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| A personality trait so basic that all of a person's activities relate to it |
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| The core traits that characterize an individual personality |
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| Traits that are inconsistent or relatively superficial |
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| The visible or observable traits of one's personality |
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| Basic underlying traits, or dimensions, of personality; each source trait is reflected in a number of surface traits |
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| A statistical technique used to correlate multiple measurements and identify general underlying factors |
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| A graph of the scores obtained on several personality traits |
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| Proposes that there are five universal dimensions of personality |
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| Trait-situation interaction |
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| The influence that external settings or circumstances have on the expression of personality traits |
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| Feeling emotionally connected to a person and seeing oneself as like him or her |
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| A theorist who has revised Freud's theory, while still accepting some of its basic concepts |
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| According to Adler, this basic drive propels us toward perfect |
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| Any attempt to overcome feelings of inadequacy or inferiority |
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| The pattern of personality and behavior that defines the pathway each person takes through life |
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| The "artist" in each of us that creates a unique identity and style of life |
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| A primary form of anxiety that arises from living in a hostile world |
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| The "mask" or public self presented to others |
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| Ego attitude in which energy is mainly directed inward |
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| Ego attitude in which energy is mainly directed outward |
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| A mental storehouse for a single individual's unconscious thoughts |
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| A mental storehouse for unconscious ideas and images shared by all humans |
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| A universal idea, image, or pattern, found in the collective unconscious |
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| An archetype representing the female principle |
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| An archetype representing the male principle |
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| An unconscious image representing, unity, wholeness, completion, and balance |
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| A circular design representing balance, unity, and completion |
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| Behavioral personality theory |
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| Any model of personality that emphasizes learning and observable behavior |
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| External conditions that strongly influence behavior |
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| A deeply ingrained, learned pattern of behavior |
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| Any stimulus (especially an internal stimulus such as hunger) strong enough to goad a person to action |
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| External stimuli that guide responses, especially by signaling the presence or absence of reinforcement |
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| Any behavior, either observable or internal |
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| Anything that produces pleasure or satisfaction; a positive reinforcer |
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| An explanation of personality that combines learning principles, cognition, and the effects of social relationships |
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| A situation as it is perceived and interpreted by an individual, not as it exists objectively |
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| Anticipation about the effect a response will have, especially regarding reinforcement |
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| The subjective value a person attaches to a particular activity or reinforcer |
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| Belief in your capacity to produce a desired result |
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| Praising or rewarding oneself for having made a particular response (such as completing a school assignment) |
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| Praise, attention, approval, and/or affection from others |
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| Situations during childhood that are capable of leaving a lasting imprint on personality |
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| An attempt to match one's own behavior to another person's behavior |
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| An approach that focuses on human experience, problems, potentials, and ideals |
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| Those traits, qualities, potentials, and behavioral patterns most characteristic of the human species |
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| Reality as it is perceived and interpreted, not as it exists objectively |
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| The process of fully developing personal potentials |
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| Temporary moments of self-actualization |
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| A person living in harmony with her or his deepest feelings, impulses, and intuitions |
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| A continuously evolving conception of one's personal identity |
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| Total subjective perception of one's body and personality (another term for self-concept) |
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| State that exists when there is a discrepancy between one's experiences and self-image or between one's self-image and ideal self |
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| An idealized image of oneself (the person one would like to be) |
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| A collection of thoughts, beliefs, feelings, and images concerning the person one could become |
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| Internal standards used to judge the value of one's thoughts, actions, feelings, or experiences |
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| Thinking of oneself as a good, lovable, worthwhile person |
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| A natural, undistorted, full-body reaction to an experience |
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| Unconditional positive regard |
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| Unshakeable love and approval given without qualification |
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| A face-to-face meeting held for the purpose of gaining information about an individual's personal history, personality, traits, current psychological state, and so forth |
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| The tendency to generalize a favorable or unfavorable first impression to unrelated details of personality |
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| Assessing behavior through direct surveillance |
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| A list of personality traits or aspects of behavior on which a person is rated |
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| Recording the frequency of various behaviors |
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| Simulating real-life conditions so that a person's reactions may be directly observed |
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| Personality questionnaire |
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| A paper-and-pencil test consisting of questions that reveal aspects of personality |
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| A test that gives the same score when different people correct it |
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| The ability of a test to yield nearly the same score each time it is given to the same person |
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| The ability of a test to measure what it purports to measure |
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| Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) |
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| One of the best-known and most widely used objective personality questionnaires |
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| A graphic representation of an individual's scores on each of the primary scales of the MMPI-2 |
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| Scales that tell whether test scores should be invalidated for lying, inconsistency, or "faking good." |
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| Psychological tests making use of ambiguous or unstructured stimuli |
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| A projective test comprised of 10 standardized inkblots |
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| Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) |
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| A projective test consisting of 20 different scenes and life situations about with respondents make up stories |
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| A tendency to avoid others plus uneasiness and strain when socializing |
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| A feeling of apprehension in the presence of others |
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| Private self-consciousness |
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| Preoccupation with inner feelings, thoughts, and fantasies |
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| Public self-consciousness |
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| Intense awareness of oneself as a social object |
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