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An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting.
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Personality
An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting.
Trait
A characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports.
Type A Personality
A theory used to describe a person with a significant number of traits focused on urgency, impatience, success, and excessive competition.
Type B Personality
Personality characterized by relatively relaxed, patient, easygoing, amicable behavior.
B.F. Skinner
1904-1990; Field: behavioral; Contributions: created techniques to manipulate the consequences of an organism's behavior in order to observe the effects of subsequent behavior; Studies: Skinner box
