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Dictionary of Vocational Psychology
by Andrew D. Carson

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

Ability.
Abilities, rated.
Academic persistence.
Accessibility of occupations.
Accommodation, reasonable.
Accommodation, testing.
Achievement motivation.
Action.
Acts of God.
Adaptive testing.
Affirmations, career.
Ageism.
Aging.
Ambition.
Apprenticeship.
Aptitude.
Artistic type.
Aspiration, career.
Assessment, career.
Assessment center.
Associative learning experience.
Avocation.

B

Baby boomers.
Barnum effect.
Barriers, career.
Big break.
Birth order.
Biodata.
Blood type.
Brand.
Branding, career.
Branding signals, career.
Brand idea, career.
Brand strategy, career.
Buffering effects.
Burnout, occupational.
Business strategy, career.

C

Calculus.
Calling.
Calvinism.
Career.
Case study.
Celerity.
Chance.
Chaos theory.
Character.
China.
Choice, vocational.
Circumscription.
Classification systems, occupational.
Collectivism.
Cognitive map of occupations.
Commitment, career.
Compatibility.
Compromise.
Computer-assisted career guidance system (CACGS, or CAGS).
Congruence.
Consistency.
Contextualism.
Conventional type.
Correspondence.
Counseling, career.
Creativity.
Crystallization.

D

Daydreams, occupational.
Dead Occupation.
Decalage, (horizontal).
Decision-making, career.
Decision-making skills.
Differentiation.
Differential influence principle.
DISCOVER.
Discrimination.
Division of labor.
Downsizing.
Drugs.
Dual-career marriage.
Dysfunction, work.

E

Early memories.
Education, career.
Educational outcome expectancies.
Elitism.
Emotional intelligence.
Employment.
Endurance.
Engagement.
Enterprising type.
Entrepreneurship.
Evaluation research.
Executive processing.
Expressed interests.
Extraversion.
Extrinsic motivation.

F

Factor analysis.
Fantasy.
Fear of success.
Feeling.
Flat-world (flat world) platform.
Flow.
Financial Conflict of Interest (FCOI).
Fitness.
Focused exploratory behavior.
Fundamental attribution error.

G

g-factor.
Gender.
Gender stratification.
Genes.
Genograms, career.
Glass ceiling.
Gossip, workplace.
Globalization.
Graphology.
Great group.

H

Happenstance.
Harassment.
Hard industries.
Honeymoon effect.
Hope.
Horatio Alger.
Hormones.
Hoteling.
Hexagon.

I

Identity, vocational.
Imagery, mental.
Individualism.
Information, occupational.
Integrity tests.
Intelligence.
Interest circle, vocational.
Interests.
Interpretation.
Intervention, career.
Interview.
Intrinsic motivation.
Introversion.
Intuition.
Inventoried interests.
Investigative type.
Images of occupations.
Instrumental learning experiences.

J

Job.
Job club.
Joblock.
Judging.

K

Kaizen.
Karoshi.
Knowledge.

L

Lamination of occupational information.
Lateralization.
Law.
Law, employment.
Leadership.
Leisure.
Life-span.
Lifestyle.
Life stage.
Locus-of-control.

M

Manifest interests.
Maturity, career.
Meme.
Mental imagery.
Mental retardation.
Mentoring.
Metaphors.
Motile workers.
Multipotentiality.
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI).

N

Narrative.
Needs.
New economy.
Nutrition.

O

Occupational mobility.
Occupation.
Occupationism.
Optimism.
Outcome expectations.

P

Pace.
Paragon.
Pattern, career.
Perceiving.
Perceptions, occupational.
Performance routine.
Personal career reality.
Personality.
Personal goals.
Person-environment fit.
Phases of career intervention.
Physical constraints.
Planned happenstance.
Planning, career.
Plateaued workers.
Positive vocational psychology.
Possible selves, occupational.
Postmodern.
Postindustrialism.
Practice.
Process.
Prestige.
Problem-solving appraisal.
Procrastination.
Prodigy.
Project.
Projective personality tests.
Psychoanalytic.
Psychodynamic.
Psychosexual.
Public policy.

Q

Quality time.
Quitting.

R

Realism, vocational.
Realistic type.
Reality principle.
Recycling.
Rehabilitation, vocational.
Research self-efficacy.
Resistance.
Rest.
Retirement.
Rhythm.

S

Salience, career.
Satisfaction, job.
Satisfactoriness, worker.
Selection.
Self-concept, occupational.
Self-efficacy.
Self-employment.
Self-engagement.
Self-esteem.
Self-knowledge.
Self-observation generalizations.
Self-talk.
Sensing.
Sessile workers.
Sexism.
Sex stratification. See gender stratification.
Sextype, occupational.
SIGI Plus.
Simulation.
Situational judgment tests.
Social advocacy.
Social influence.
Social space.
Social type.
Specialty choice.
Stag effect.
Standard deviation.
Status attainment theory.
Status, occupational.
Stress, occupational.
Structure of interests.
Sublimation.
Subrogation principle.
Synchronicity.
Synthesis.

T

Tardiness.
Task approach skills.
Teamwork.
Telecommuting.
Telework.
Ten-year rule.
Temporary production impediment.
Tenure.
Tested interests.
Testing, indiscriminate.
Theory of work adjustment.
Theft, employee.
Thinking.
Trait-and-factor counseling.
Triple convergence.
Trust.

U

Underachievement.
Undercommitment, work.
Unemployment.
Uniform.

V

Vacation.
Values.
Values systems.
Virtual teams.
Virtual work.
Vocational personality type.
Vocational psychology.
Volunteer.

W

Work.
Work environment.
Work ethic.
Work-family commitment.
Workaholism.
Work sample.
World-view generalizations.

X

Y

Z

Zone of acceptable alternatives. See Social Space.

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