PSYC 2600 Lecture : Personality Psychology Class 4.odt
29 Mar 2012
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What is personality development: personality development: continuities, consistencies, stability in people over time, and the way in which people change over time. Three key forms of stability: rank order stability: maintenance of an individual position"s within group, mean level stability: constancy of level in population, personality coherence: maintaining rank order relative to others but changing in the manifestations of trait. Internal: changes are internal to a person, not changes in the external surrounding: enduring: changes are enduring over time, not temporary. Three levels of analysis: population level: changes or constancies that apply more or less to everyone, group differences level: changes or constancies that affect different groups differently. Personality stability over time :temperament stability during infancy: temperament: individual differences that emerge very early in life, are heritable, and involved behaviors are linked with emotionality. As assessed by caregivers, temperament factors include activity level, smiling and laughter, fear, distress to limitations, soothability, and the duration of orienting.
