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a methodology for describing personal dispositions in which within-person variations across social contexts are charted in terms of the behaviors evoked by particular situations. [developed by Austrian-born U.S. personality psychologist Walter Mischel (1930– ) and Japanese-born U.S. psychologist Yuichi Shoda]

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Psychology term of the day

January 28th 2025

mixed receptive-expressive language disorder

in DSM–IV–TR, a developmental communication disorder that combines the symptoms of expressive language disorder with the symptoms of semantic comprehension problems, leading to difficulty with word associations, categorization, and verbal mediation in general.