APSY2240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Absolute Continuity, Up Series, Extraversion And Introversion

• School: Boston College
• Department: Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology
• Course: APSY2240
• Professor: Anita Deshpande

Document Summary

Next tuesday"s lecture will not be on the midterm. If he had 9 on extraversion in 64 then 78 then there is absolute continuity: typically utilized in terms of understanding group averages on a given trait. Compare the average social dominance score of the children from the up documentary in 1964 and then again in 78. High absolute continuity- two average scores are similar. Low absolute continuity- two average scores are dissimilar. Level of absolute continuity can vary across traits. Important for theories of human development of personality. Adolescence is a time of confusion and identity and anxiety. We might expect that at the age of 13 and 14 years old our traits of anxiety are a little bit more elevated than at the age of 7 or at the age of 21. We might expect that the group measure scores are high on the cohort of children in 1971 versus 78 when they are adults at 21.