Category: I

Lawfulness within the behavior of a person, nomothetic.  

An approach to the study of personality that emphasizes the unique aspects of the individual’s personality.  

The qualities possessed by individuals that make them different from others.  

A diagrammatic representation of the chromosomes of an individual illustrating their relative sizes and appearance.  

A progressive, continuing loss of the immediate sense of self—a symptom of the prodromal stage of schizophrenia.  

An adolescent who avoids thinking about goals, roles, and values, identity achievement type.  

An adolescent who has made satisfying, self-chosen commitments relative to sex roles and occupational choice, identity diffusion type.  

Two offspring developed from one ovum. Twins who are exactly the same in appearance because they developed from the same ovum. Same-sex twins who develop from the same fertilized egg and have identical inherited traits. Monozygotic twins, commonly known as identical twins, originate from a single fertilized ovum (egg) and share identical genes.  

Typically assumed to be the weight a person achieves at the age of 22-25. The weight that corresponds to the lowest mortality rate for individuals with a particular height, gender, and age.  

A set of beliefs a person has concerning how he or she should behave and what he or she would like to be.