PSYC 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Emerging Adulthood And Early Adulthood, Birth Order, Longitudinal Study
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Quantum change: having leaps where you suddenly say that you are a different person, a child who has difficulty with self control might later say they are impulsive, but this shows that the trait is consistent. Cu learn is a podcast, and two articles from the new york times: podcast about behaviour change, articles about sex and gender. Personality stability over times: temperament: individual differences that emerge very early in life, are heritable, and involved behaviours are linked with emotionality. 50% heritability: when you come into the world, it is in some way doubled. The people are changing: quantum change, you can have radical changes, many people do change. Look at the magnitude of adulthood of the correlations across time for all the major traits: neuroticism, openness, and extraversion are huge, personality appears to become more and more set in stone with age.
