PSYCH 2B03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Shy Child, Shy People, Trait Theory
7 Dec 2018
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Chapter 7 textbook notes: personality stability, development, and change: People change their personality throughout their lives, sometimes in response to dramatic events and sometimes seemingly just because the passage of time. Yet fundamental traits remain consistent-thus we go through change and stability: changing personality is difficult to do on purpose, but it is not impossible. People show a tendency to maintain their patterns of behaviour throughout their life: ex. A child who is more extraverted than more other children is likely to be more extraverted than other when an adolescent and as an adult. This kind of stability is called rank-order consistency. It does not mean people do not change over the years, it just means they tend to maintain the ways in which they are different from other people the same age. In one study, personality trait scores from the same people measured 10 years apart correlated between r=0. 60 and r=0. 90.
