PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Longitudinal Study, Psych, Twin Study
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Overviw of part 1: continuity of personality: do individual differences in some attribute predict individual differences in that same attributes at some later point in time? (x1- x2) Coherence of personality: do individuals in some attribute predict individual differences in some other attribute at some later point in time (y1 z2) The way a trait expresses itself will exchange across life force. A trait x might appear as x in childhood and z in adulthood. They are just an underlying disposition that stays the same but just changes the way in manifests itself along time: continuity of personality: Consistency of individual differences - that is relative position or rank order- within a population of individuals over time. Differential continuity is independent of normative changes in trait levels. Even though everybody changes over time, people will still have individual changes. Height at age 5 will be a robust predictor of the height when they grow up: continuity of personality:
