Terms Related to Personality Development

• Dual Personality

  A dissociative disorder in which the individual adopts two or more distinct personalities. Each personality is a fully integrated and complex unit with memories, behavior ...

• Dyssocial Behavior

  A personality disorder whose essential feature is a pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others that begins in childhood or ...

• Multiple Identity Disorder

  A dissociative disorder in which the individual adopts two or more distinct personalities. Each personality is a fully integrated and complex unit with memories, behavior ...

• As If Personality

  A major deviation from normal patterns of behavior.

• Personality

  Behavior-response patterns that characterize the individual.

• Dissociative Identity Disorder

  A dissociative disorder in which the individual adopts two or more distinct personalities. Each personality is a fully integrated and complex unit with memories, behavior ...

• Character

  In current usage, approximately equivalent to personality. The sum of the relatively fixed personality traits and habitual modes of response of an individual.