PSYC 2740 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: European Canadian, Asian Canadians, Longitudinal Study

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

Document Summary

Personality dispositions over time: stability, coherence, and change. Personality development is the continuities, consistencies, and stabilities in people over time and the ways in which people change over time. The maintenance of individual position with a group. Rank order change: if people fail to maintain their rank order if the submissive people rise up and put down the dominants then the group is displaying rank order instability: mean level stability. The average level of liberalism or conterbatim in a group remains the same over time, the group exhibit high mean level stability: personalty coherent. Maintain rank order in relation to other individual but changing the manifestations of he traits. eg. toughness at age 8: rough-and-tumble play toughness at age 20: boldly asking someone out on a date. Change (over time): internal ( not external change such as walking to another classroom, enduring ( not temporary change such as getting cold) eg. the increase in sexual motivation at puberty.