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| the research strategy of focusing on one particular trait of interest and learning as much as possible about its behavioral correlates, developmental atcendents, and life consquences. pg 197 |
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| the research strategy that focuses on a particular behavior and investigates its correlates its correlates with as many different personality traits as possible in order to explain the basis of the behavior and to illuminates the workings of personality. pg 198 |
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| the research stragey that attempts to narrow the list of thousands of traits bterms into a shorter list of the ones that really matter. |
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| the research stategy that focuses on identifying types of indivduals. each type is charcterized by a particular pattern of traits |
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| a set of 100 descriptive itemsthat conprehensivley cover the personality domain. |
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| in jack brown personality theory, the psychological tendency to inhibit the behavioral expression of motivation and emotional impulse. at the extremes people may be either under controlled or overcontrolled. |
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| In jack blocks personality theory the abibilty to vary ones level of ego control, in order to respond apporpritaley to opprutnities and situational circumstances. |
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| the idea that if people find that somehting is important they will develop a word for it, and therefore the major personality traits will ahve synomnos terms in many diffrent languages. |
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| cange in personality overtime including the devloplemnt of adult personality from its origins in infancy and childhood, and changes in personality over the life span. |
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