Latest Updates, Exams of Advanced Education
personality - ANSWERpsychological qualities that contribute to an individual's
enduring and distinctive patterns of feeling, thinking, and behaving
"enduring" - ANSWERconsistent across time and across different situations
"distinctive" - ANSWERfeatures that differentiate people from one another
"contribute to" - ANSWERfactors that casually influence, and thus at least
partly explain, an individual's tendencies
"feeling, thinking, and behaving" - ANSWERall aspects of persons
"what" - ANSWERcharacteristics of the person and how these characteristics
are organized in relation to one another
"how" - ANSWERthe determinants of a person's personality
"why" - ANSWERcauses of, and reasons behind, an individual's behavior
, structure - ANSWERstable, enduring aspects of personality; the building
blocks of personality theory; comparable to concepts such as atoms and
molecules in physics
process - ANSWERpsychological reactions that change dynamically; that
change over relatively brief periods of time
L-data - ANSWERinfo that can be obtained from a person's life history or life
record
O-data - ANSWERinfo provided by knowledgeable observers, such as parents,
friends, or teachers
T-data - ANSWERinfo obtained from experimental procedures or standardized
tests
S-data - ANSWERinfo provided by the subject himself or herself, typically in
the form of response to questionnaires
fixed measure - ANSWERexactly the same measure are administered to all
the people in a study; scores are computed in exactly the same way
flexible measure - ANSWERunstructured personality tests
nomothetic - ANSWERfixed measures that are applied in the same manner to
all persons