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| set of related ideas that attempts to explain something not yet known to be true |
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| an organized system of beliefs that helps us to understand human nature |
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| evaluating personality theories |
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| philosophy (underlying ideas), science (ability to be tested), art (usefulness/application->psychotherapy) |
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| philosophical viewpt-assumptions |
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| 1. freedom v determinism (free will) 2. heredity v environment 3. uniqueness v universality (general principles 4. proactive v reactive 5. optimistic v pessimistic (ability to adapt) 6. conscious v unconscious |
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| criteria for evaluating assumptions |
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| coherence, relevance, comprehensiveness, compellingness |
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| hypothesis must be testable, operationalized, falsifiable |
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| model of the world shared by members of a community |
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| assertions about reality based on empirical observations arising from paradigms |
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| criteria for evaluating personality theory as a science |
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| verifiability, compatibility, predictive power, simplicity, usefulness |
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| assessment, research, psychotherapy |
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| self-reports, interviews, bx observation... not representative, response bias, reactivity |
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| unstructured tests... Rorschach inkblot, TAT (describe pics)...poor reliability |
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| standardization, objectivity, reliability (consistency), validity (accuracy) |
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| case studies (good for theories), correlational studies (natural environ), lab experiments (difference between groups) |
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| scholarly (means to gain knowledge about the self), ethical (means to help grow, humanistic), curative (means to change bx) |
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