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1		The term personality comes from the word persona, meaning a theatrical .


2		Personality is a pattern of relatively permanent , dispositions, or characteristics within an individual that give some measure of consistency to that person's behavior.


3		A is a set of related assumptions that allows scientists to use logical deductive reasoning to formulate testable hypotheses.


4		Theories are most closely related to , the branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of knowledge.


5		The field of study concerned with observation and classification of data and with the verification of general laws through the testing of hypotheses is called .


6		A is a classification of things according to their natural relationships.


7		A hypothesis is often defined as an .


8		The psychology of is a subdiscipline of psychology that studies the personal traits of scientists.


9		A useful theory must be , which means that research must be able to either confirm or disconfirm its major tenets.


10		The law of parsimony states that the of two theories is preferred.


11		The most important function of a is to generate research.


12		An definition is one that defines concepts and units in terms of specific operations.


13		Teleology is an explanation of behavior in terms of goals.


14		A reliable test will yield results.


15		A test that measures what it is supposed to measure is said to be .