A Glossary of Descriptive Psychology Concepts

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Ability
Achievement
Actor
Attitudes
AOC
appraisal
Behavior
behavior potential
calculational system
Capacity
circumstances
Community
competence
concept
Critic
Deliberate Action
Derivatives
Dispositions
distinction
Descriptive Psychology
Drama
Dramaturgical pattern
Embodiment
events
fact
forms of behavior description
Identity
implementation
instrumental
Intentional Action
Interests
intrinsic
judgment
know (concept)
Know (parameter)
Know How
Knowledge
Ladder of Significance
locution
objects
Observer
OPESA
patterns of behavior
paradigmatically
Performance
Person
Person Characteristics
Person Concept
Powers
processes
Reality
"Really Doing"
reason
self-concept
sensitive
Significance
situation
social practice
State of Affairs
State
status
status assignment
Style
Traits
Verbal Behavior
Want
World
  1. A set of concepts within which Person, Behavior, Language, and World can be described and understood.
  2. A community that uses those concepts to actually describe and understand; and that uses such descriptions and understanding to deal effectively with all aspects of persons' activities.
  3. A method of getting access to all the facts and all the possible facts about Persons and what they do.