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behaviorism
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the school of psychology founded by John B. Watson that focused on psychology as the study of overt behavior rather than of mental processes
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psychoanalysis
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Sigmund Freud's theory of personality and system of therapy for treating mental disorders
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personality
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the unique, relatively enduring internal and external aspects of a person's character that influence behavior in different situations
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reliability
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the consistency of response to a psychological assessment device
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validity
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the extent to which an assessment device measures what it is intended to measure
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self-report inventory
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a personality assessment technique in which subjects answer questions about their behaviors and feelings
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projective test
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a personality assessment device in which subjects are presumed to project personal needs, fears, and values onto their interpretation or description of an ambiguous stimuli
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case study
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a detailed history of an individual that contains data from a variety of sources
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independent variable
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in an experiment, the stimulus variable or condition the experimenter manipulates to learn its effect on the dependent variable
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dependent variable
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in an experiment, the variable the experimenter desires to measure, typically the subjects' behavior or response to manipulation of the independent variable
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experimental group
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in an experiment, the group that is exposed to the experimental treatment
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control group
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in an experiment, the group that does not receive the experimental treatment
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correlational method
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a statistical technique that measures the degree of the relationship between two variables, expressed by the correlation coefficient
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historical determinism
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the view that personality is basically fixed in the early years of life and subject to little change thereafter
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