PSYC 2740 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Longitudinal Study, Neuroticism, Sensation Seeking

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2740
• Professor: Alexis Arbuthnott

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5: personality dispositions over time stability, coherence, and change. Conceptual issues personality development: the continuities, consistencies, and stabilities in people over time, and the ways in which people change over time. There is continuity in the underlying trait, but change in the outward manifestation of that trait. We can examine personality development at 3 different levels of personality analysis: the population level, the group differences level, and the individual differences level. Bullies in childhood tend to become juvenile delinquents in adolescence and criminals in adulthood. longitudinal study: examines individuals over time. These studies are costly and difficult to conduct, but the information gained about personality development is valuable. actometer: a mechanical motion-recording device, often in the form of a watch attached to the wrist. With respect to the big five, neuroticism generally decreases over time; people become a bit more emotionally stable as they age.