| CPI | California Personality Inventory; Cancer Potential Index; congenital palatopharyngeal incompetence; ... |
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| CPS | carbamoylphosphate synthetase; cardioplegic perfusion solution; centipoise; cervical pain syndrome; ... |
| CTP | California Test of Personality; citrate transport protein; clinical terms project; comprehensive tre... |
| DPI | daily permissible intake; days post inoculation; dietary protein intake; diphtheria-pertussis immuni... |
| EPQ | Eysenck Personality Questionnaire |
| personality development | Growth of habitual patterns of behaviour in childhood and adolescence. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| 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) |
| personality formation | The life history associated with the development of individual patterns and of one's individuality. (05 Mar 2000) |
| personality integration | The effective organization of old and new experience, data, and emotional capacities into the personality; the harmonious organization of the personality. (05 Mar 2000) |
| personality inventory | Check list, usually to be filled out by a person about himself, consisting of many statements about personal characteristics which the subject checks. (12 Dec 1998) |
| personality profile | A method by which the results of psychological testing are presented in graphic form, a vignette or brief personality description. (05 Mar 2000) |
| personality test | Any of the category of psychological test's designed to test the characteristics of the personality, emotional status, mental disorder, etc., in contrast to an intelligence test. (05 Mar 2000) |
| personality tests | Standardised objective tests designed to facilitate the evaluation of personality. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory | A questionnaire type of psychological test for ages 16 and over, with 550 true-false statements coded in 4 validity and 10 personality scales which may be administered in both an individual or group format. Synonym: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory test | A questionnaire type of psychological test for ages 16 and over, with 550 true-false statements coded in 4 validity and 10 personality scales which may be administered in both an individual or group format. Synonym: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. (05 Mar 2000) |
| multiple personality | A dissociative disorder in which two or more distinct conscious personality's alternately prevail in the same person, without any personality being aware of the other. See: dual personality. (05 Mar 2000) |
| multiple personality disorder | A dissociative disorder in which the individual adopts two or more distinct personalities. Each personality is a fully integrated and complex unit with memories, behaviour patterns and social friendships. Transition from one personality to another is sudden. (12 Dec 1998) |
| cyclothymic personality | A personality disorder in which a person experiences regularly alternating periods of elation and depression, (see bipolar illness) usually not related to external circumstances or situation. (27 Sep 1997) |
| cyclothymic personality disorder | A personality disorder in which a person experiences regularly alternating periods of elation and depression, (see bipolar illness) usually not related to external circumstances or situation. (27 Sep 1997) |