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The Adjective Check List (ACL) is a psychological assessment containing 300 adjectives used to identify common psychological traits. [1] The ACL was constructed by Harrison G. Gough and Alfred B. Heilbrun, Jr. with the goal to assess psychological traits of an individual. [ 2 ]
The result was a list of 4504 adjectives they believed were descriptive of observable and relatively permanent traits. [ 37 ] In 1943, Raymond Cattell of Harvard University took Allport and Odbert's list and reduced this to a list of roughly 160 terms by eliminating words with very similar meanings.
Acquiescence bias, also known as agreement bias, [1] is a category of response bias common to survey research [2] in which respondents have a tendency to select a positive response option [1] [3] or indicate a positive connotation disproportionately more frequently.
Sir Francis Galton.. Sir Francis Galton was one of the first scientists to apply the lexical hypothesis to the study of personality, [4] stating: . I tried to gain an idea of the number of the more conspicuous aspects of the character by counting in an appropriate dictionary the words used to express them...
The anchoring effect is a psychological phenomenon in which an individual's judgments or decisions are influenced by a reference point or "anchor" which can be completely irrelevant.
In psychology, a construct, also called a hypothetical construct or psychological construct, is a tool used to facilitate understanding of human behavior. A psychological construct is a label for a domain of behaviors. Behavioral sciences use constructs such as conscientiousness, intelligence, political power, self-esteem, and group culture.
"Acquiescence" (ARS) is the tendency to respond to items with agreement/affirmation independent of their content ("yea"-saying). These kinds of response styles differ from social-desirability bias in that they are unrelated to the question's content and may be present in both socially neutral and in socially favorable or unfavorable contexts ...
In psychoanalysis, resistance is the individual's efforts to prevent repressed drives, feelings or thoughts from being integrated into conscious awareness. [1]Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalytic theory, developed the concept of resistance as he worked with patients who suddenly developed uncooperative behaviors during the analytic session.