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| 152754479 | trait | a characteristic pattern of behaviour or a disposition to feel and act, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports | |
| 152754480 | personality inventory | a questionnaire on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviours, used to assess selected personality traits | |
| 152754481 | Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) | most widely researched and clinically used for all personality tests - developed to identify emotional disorders and is now used for many other screening purposes | |
| 152754482 | empirically derived test | a test developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups | |
| 152754483 | social-cognitive perspective | views behaviour as influenced by the interactions between persons (and their thinking) and their social context | |
| 152754484 | reciprocal determinism | interacting influences btwn personality and environmental factors | |
| 152754485 | personal control | our sense of controlling our environment rather than feeling helpless | |
| 152754486 | external locus of control | the perception that chance or outside forces beyond one's personal control determine one's fate | |
| 152754487 | internal locus of control | the perception that one controls one's own fate | |
| 152754488 | learned helplessness | the hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events | |
| 152754489 | spotlight effect | overestimating others' noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance and blunders (as we presume a spotlight shines on us) | |
| 152754490 | self-esteem | one's feeling of high or low selfworth | |
| 152754491 | self-serving bias | a readiness to perceive oneself favourably | |
| 152754492 | positive psychology | the scientific study of optimal human functioning, aims to discover and promote strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive |
