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personal characteristics that have been judged or evaluated; a person’s desirable or undesirable qualities

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character

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a person’s unique and relatively stable patterns of thinking, emotions, and behavior

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personality

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a stable, enduring quality that a person shows in most situations

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personality trait

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a style of personality defined by a group of related traits

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personality type

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a person whose attention is focused inward; ;a shy, reserved, self-focused person

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introvert

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a person whose attention is directed outward; a bold, outgoing person

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extrovert

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a person’s perception of his or her own personality traits

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self-concept

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regarding oneself as a worthwhile person; a positive evaluation of oneself

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self-esteem

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a system of concepts, assumptions, ideas, and principles used to understand and explain personality

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personality theory

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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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interview (personality)

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an interview in which conversation is informal and topics are taken up freely as they arise

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unstructured interview

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an interview that follows a prearranged plan, usually a series of planned questions

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structured interview

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the tendency to generalize a favorable or unfavorable particular impression to unrelated details of personality

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halo effect

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assessing behavior through direct surveillance

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direct observation

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a list of personality traits or aspects of behavior on which a person is rated

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rating scale

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recording the frequency of various behaviors

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behavioral assessment

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simulating real-life conditions so that a person’s reactions may be directly observed

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situational test

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a paper-pencil test consisting of questions that reveal aspects of personality

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personality questionaire

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a test that gives the same score when different people correct it

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objective test

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the ability of a test to yield nearly the same score each time is given to the same person

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reliability

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the ability of a test to measure what it purports to measure

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validity

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one of the best known and most widely used objective personality questionnaire

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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2)

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psychological tests that used ambiguous or unstructured stimuli

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projective tests

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a projective test that consists of 10 standardized inkblots

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Rorsachach Ikblot Test

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a projective test consisting of 10 different scenes and the the life situations about which respondents make up stories

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Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)