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| for gordon allport, "the dynamic orginization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his unique adjustments to the environment" |
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| innate emotional aspects of personality |
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| a characteristic of a person that makes a person unique, with a unique style of adapting to stimuli in the world |
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| a trait that characterizes only one person who has it (i.e., a trait considered from the idiographic point of view) |
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| a trait characterizing many people (i.e., a trait considered from the nomothetic point of view) |
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| a trait that only one person has (also called individual trait) |
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| traits concerned with the style or tempo of a person's behavior |
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| one of the half dozen or so traits that best describe a particular person |
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| a trait that influences a limited range of behaviors. |
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| a pervasive personality trait that dominates nearly everything a person does |
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| a trait's independence of its developmental origins |
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| unifying philosophy of life |
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| an attitude or set of values, often religious, that gives coherence and meaning to life |
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| the Latin phrase indicating that a person makes a unified whole out of many diverse aspects of personality |
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| all aspects of a person that make for unity; a person's sense of self or ego |
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| objects or people that help define a person's identity or sense of self |
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| a stage in middle childhood in which problem-solving ability is important to one's sense of self |
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| effort based on a sense of selfhood or identity |
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| a stage in adulthood in which a person integrates the self into a unified whole |
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| extrinsic religious orientation |
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| attitude in which religion is seen as a means to a person's other goals (such as status or security) |
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| intrinsic religioius orientation |
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| attitude in which religion is accepted for its own sake rather than as a means to an end |
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| considering concepts from diverse theories, without making careful selection from and evaluation of these concepts |
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