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Contemporary Research on Personality

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Trait   a characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act as assessed by self report inventories and peer reports  
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Factor Analysis   a statistic procedure that has been used to identify clusters of related test item  
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Personality Inventories   a questionnaire where people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors; used to asses selected personality traits  
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MN Miltiphastic Personality Inventory   most widely used personality test Originally designed to identify emotional disorders, now used for many other screenings.  
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Empirically derived test   a test developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups  
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The Big Five   conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness, extraversion- todays common currency for personality psychology  
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Social-cognitive perspective   views behavior as influenced by the interaction between persons (and their thinking) and their social context  
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Reciprocal determinism   the interacting influences between personality and environmental factors  
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Personal control   our sense of controlling or controlled by our environment  
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External locus of control   the perception of chance or outside forces beyond ones personal control determines their fate  
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Internal locus of control   the perception that one controls ones own fate  
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Learned helplessness   the hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events.  
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Positive Psychology   the scientific study of optimal human functioning; aims to discover and promote strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive  
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Possible selves   visions of the self you dream of becoming and the self you fear of coming  
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Spotlight Effect   overestimating others’ noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders (as if a spotlight were on us)  
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Self-Esteem   feeling of high or low self worth  
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Self serving bias   our readiness to perceive ourselves favorably  
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