PSYC 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Neuroticism, Big5, Psychosexual Development
11 Apr 2018
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Personality psychology class 3 chapter 5. Personality development: continuities, consistencies, stabilities in people over time, aspect of personality all of the ways that in are core we do stay the same. With respect to the big 5 we see a lot of continuity: ex. 3 key forms of personality stability (know these very well: rank order stability, mean level stability, personality coherence, rank order stability. Definition: maintenance of individual position within the group (where you stack relative to others) There hast to be a comparison for rank order stability. If people maintain their position on a trait relative to others over time, that trait is said to have high rank order stability. They will tend to rank high over time. All big-5 factors have high rank order stability therefore we can say some traits stay the same over time. Trying to identify the ways in which individuals relate to others in their comparison.
