constitutional type

a classification of individuals based on physique and other biological characteristics or on a hypothetical relationship between physical and psychological characteristics, such as temperament, personality, and a tendency to develop a specific type of mental disorder. See Carus typology; Kretschmer typology; Sheldon’s constitutional theory of personality.

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Psychology term of the day

March 11th 2025

transfer

1. vb. to shift or change from one location to another, one form to another, or one situation or condition to another.

2. n. the shift or change thus produced, as in transfer of training.

3. n. in Gestalt psychology, the use of the solution to one problem in solving a second problem that has elements in common with the first.