PSY-250 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Study Guide, Erich Fromm, Human Nature
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About perception of essential meaning - an epiphany. It means the love or pursuit of wisdom. A set of abstract concepts developed about a group of facts or events in order to explain them. Model or concept of the world that is shared by members of a community and that governs their activities. Statements about the world based on empirical observations arising from currently accepted paradigms, which could also be seen as shared philosophical assumptions. Specifies which behaviors are included in the concept. Imaginary or hypothetical and cannot be seen with the naked eye or even with sophisticated optical equipment. The quality of measuring what a construct is supposed to measure. Personality is difficult to define because each theorist has his or her own understanding of the term personality and what it entails. With this being said, there is little common agreement among personality theorists on the appropriate use of the term.
