1. in employment interviews, an applicant’s account of his or her employment history or other experience that sheds significant light on how he or she reacted to workplace events. A skillful interviewer will attempt to elicit such information in addition to the factual data; similarly, a skillful interviewee will know how to present his or her experiences in terms of positive lessons learned or challenges overcome.

2. in the interbehavioral psychology of Jacob Robert Kantor, an organism’s history of interactions with and responses to environmental stimuli, which influences that organism’s subsequent psychological development and behavior.