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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 guess.


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.