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trait
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a characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel or act, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports
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personality inventory
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a questionnaire on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors; used to assess selected personality traits
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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
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the most widely researched and clinically used of all personality tests. Originally developed to identify emotional disorders. Also used for many other screening processes
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empirically derived test
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a test developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups
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Reciprocal determinism
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the interacting influences between personality and environmental factors
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Social-cognitive perspective
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views behavior as influenced by the interaction between persons and their social context
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Personal control
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our sense of controlling our environment rather than feelinf helpless
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External locus of control
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the perception that chance or outside forces beyond one's personal control determines one's fate
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Internal locus of control
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the perception that one controls ones own fate
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Learned helplessness
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the hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns then unable to avoid repeated aversive events
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Spotlight effect
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overestimating others' noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders,
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Self-esteem
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one's feelings of high or low self worth
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Self-serving bias
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a readiness to perceive oneself favorably
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