PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Midlife Crisis, Asian Canadians, European Canadian
29 Jan 2019
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Chapter 5: personality dispositions over time: stability, coherence, and change. Conceptual issues: personality development, stability, coherence, and change. Continuities, consistencies, and stabilities in people over time and the ways in which people change over time. Maintenance of individual position within a group. E. g. if you were tall at 14, you will still be tall at 20 relative to everyone because height adds a few inches to everyone. Rank order change when people fail to maintain their rank order; e. g. if submissive people rise up and put down the dominant people. If the average level of liberalism or conservatism in a group stays the same over time, the group is showing high mean level stability. Mean level change when the average changes, e. g. people become more conservative as they get older so the mean is shifted towards conservatism. Involves changes in the manifestations of a trait maintaining rank order in relation to other individuals but changing the manifestations of the trait.
