PSYC-233 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Introjection, Carl Jung, Nomothetic
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Individual differences: differences in personality from one person to another. Intrapersonal functioning: psychological processes that take place within the person. Parsimony: the quality of requiring few assumptions; simplicity. Personality: a dynamic organization, inside the person, of psychophysical systems that create the person"s characteristic patterns of behavior, thoughts, and feelings. Theory: a summary statement, a principle or set of principles about a class of events: when laypersons use the term personality, they generally refer to _________, whereas when personality psychologists use the term, they generally refer to. Clinically significant: an association large enough to have some practical importance. Correlation: a relationship in which two variables or dimensions covary when measured repeatedly. Correlation coefficient: a numeric index of the degree of correlation between two variables. Dependent variable: the variable measured as the outcome of an experiment; the effect in a cause effect relation. Descriptive statistics: statistics used to describe or characterize some group.
