PSYC 2740 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Major Depressive Episode, Alcoholism, Cardiovascular Disease

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2740
• Professor: Stephen Lewis

Document Summary

Personality disposition over time: stability, change, and coherence. Rank order: individuals have stability in their rank order in their certain trait. Mean level stability: pertains to groups and population levels, all individuals in a group tend to have a consistent level , could shift. Personality coherence: trait level may be consistent over time, but how the trait is expressed may differ. Shy as children, teens, adults but the behaviours are different. Internal: if the change does not come from within it does not constitute personality change. Being sick may make it had to focus, but that is an external factor and affects behaviour but not mean it"s a personality change. Changes and stability may be applicable across all people. What about these aspects of stability and change affect your future. Even in infancy early aspects of personality emerge. Temperament: early differences involved in behaviours re; emotionality an arousability. Some children are more attentive to things in their environment.