PSYC 2740 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Personality Development, Neuroticism, Trait Theory
30 Jan 2017
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Personality dispositions over time: stability, coherence, and change. Conceptual issues: personality development, stability, coherence, and change. Personality development: the continuities, consistencies, and stabilities in people over time and the ways in which people change over time. Two facets stability and change: many forms of personality stability and personality change. Three most important forms of stability: rank order stability. Maintenance of individual position within a group. High rank order stability vs. rank order instability/ rank order change. People who score higher at time 1 are still going to score higher at time 2 than those who scored lower at time 1: mean level stability. High mean level stability: average level of a certain trait remains the same over time. Vs. mean level change: personality coherence. Changes in the manifestations of a trait. Maintaining rank order in relation to other individuals but changing the manifestations of the trait.
