APA dictionary of psychology

By G. VandenBos. 2007

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Creative Thinking Ability: Domain Generality and Specificity (2010, background): “Creative thinking is defined in the dictionary of the American Psychological Association (Vanderbos, 2006) as mental processes leading to a new invention, solution, or synthesis in any area.”
Personality and Young Adult Financial Distress (2015, background): “Extraversion is “an orientation of one’s interests and energies toward the outer world of people and things rather than the inner world of subjective experience, characterized by positive affect and sociability” (VandenBos, 2007); agreeableness represents “the tendency to act in a cooperative, unsel”
Beyond intelligence: a meta-analytic review of the relationship among metacognition, intelligence, and academic performance (2018, background): “Intelligence is defined as Bthe ability to derive information, learn from experience, adapt to the environment, understand, and correctly utilize thought and reason^ (VandenBos 2007, p. 488).”
Causal Agency Theory: Reconceptualizing a Functional Model of Self-Determination (2015, unknown): “Control is deﬁned as “author-ity, power, or inﬂuence over events, behaviors, situations, or people” (VandenBos, 2007, p. 228).”
Sales Force Turnover and Retention: A Research Agenda (2012, background): “The personalistic school of psychology argued that the formal study of personality should occupy the center of psychological science (VandenBos 2007, p. 689).”