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Personality
An individual's characteristic style of behaving, thinking, and feeling.
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Self-report
A method in which people provide subjective information about their thoughts, feelings, or behaviors, typically via questionnaire or interview.
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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
A well-researched clinical questionnaire used to assess personality and psychological problems.
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Projective test
A test designed to reveal inner aspects of individuals' personalities by analysis of their responses to a standard series of ambiguous stimuli.
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Rorschach inkblot test
A projective technique where respondents' inner thoughts and feelings are revealed by analysis of their responses to a set of unstructured inkblots.
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Thematic apperception test
A projective technique in which respondents' underlying motives are believed to be revealed through analysis of the stories they make about ambiguous pictures.
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Trait
A relatively stable disposition to behave in a consistent way.
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Big Five
The traits of the five-factor model: openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.
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Openness to experience
A trait where high scorers are imaginative and independent, while low scorers are down to earth and conforming.
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Self-actualizing tendency
The human motive towards realizing our inner potential.
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Defense mechanisms
Unconscious coping mechanisms that reduce anxiety generated by threats from unacceptable impulses.
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Narcissism
A trait that reflects a grandiose view of the self combined with a tendency to seek admiration and exploit others.
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Self-esteem
The extent to which an individual likes, values, and accepts the self.
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Locus of control
A person's tendency to perceive the control of rewards as internal to the self or external in the environment.
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Existential approach
A school of thought that regards personality as being governed by ongoing choices and decisions in light of realities of life and death.
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Self-concept
A person's explicit knowledge of his or her behaviors, traits, and other personal characteristics.
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Social cognitive approach
An approach that uses personality in terms of how the person thinks about and responds to situations encountered in daily life.
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