| persona | Origin: L. <biology> Same as Person. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| personable | 1. Having a well-formed body, or person; graceful; comely; of good appearance; presentable; as, a personable man or woman. "Wise, warlike, personable, courteous, and kind." (Spenser) "The king, . . . So visited with sickness, was not personable." (E. Hall) 2. Enabled to maintain pleas in court. Having capacity to take anything granted. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| personal construct theory | A psychological theory based on dimensions or categories used by a given person in describing or explaining the personality and behaviour of others or of himself. The basic idea is that different people will use consistently different categories. The theory was formulated in the fifties by george kelly. Two tests devised by him are the role construct repertory test and the repertory grid test. (12 Dec 1998) |
| personal equation | A slight error in judgment, perceptual response, or action peculiar to the individual and so constant that it is usually possible to allow for it in accepting the person's statements or conclusions, thus arriving at approximate exactness; observed in persons whose work involves readings of events in time, such as navigators and air traffic controllers. (05 Mar 2000) |
| personal growth laboratory | A sensitivity training setting in which the primary emphasis is on each participant's potentialities for creativity, empathy, and leadership. See: sensitivity training group. (05 Mar 2000) |
| personal health services | Health care provided to individuals. (12 Dec 1998) |
| personal motivation | An individual's predispositions and expectations that give meaning and direction to personality functioning. (05 Mar 2000) |
| personal probability | An idiosyncratic judgment about the outcome of an event; it may include evidence too subtle to be disposed of in a subjective probability. (05 Mar 2000) |
| personal satisfaction | A subjective evaluation, judgment, or attitude expressed by an individual with respect to the attainment of certain goals or needs based on his level of aspiration or expectation. (12 Dec 1998) |
| personal space | Invisible boundaries surrounding the individual's body which are maintained in relation to others. (12 Dec 1998) |
| personality | Behaviour-response patterns that characterise the individual. (12 Dec 1998) |
| personality assessment | The determination and evaluation of personality attributes by interviews, observations, tests, or scales. Articles concerning personality measurement are considered to be within scope of this term. (12 Dec 1998) |
| personality development | Growth of habitual patterns of behaviour in childhood and adolescence. (12 Dec 1998) |
| personality disorder | General term for a group of behavioural disorder's characterised by usually lifelong, ingrained, maladaptive patterns of deviant behaviour, lifestyle, and social adjustment that are different in quality from psychotic and neurotic symptoms; former designations for individuals with these personality disorder's were psychopath and sociopath. See: antisocial personality disorder. (05 Mar 2000) |
| personality disorders | A major deviation from normal patterns of behaviour. (12 Dec 1998) |