PSYC 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Psychosexual Development, Longitudinal Study, Personality Development
3 Feb 2016
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Personality dispositions over time: stability, change, and coherence. Personality development: continuities, consistencies, stabilities in people over time, the ways in which people change over time. Definition: maintenance of individual position within the group (where you. We expect the person to score the highest (in aggression) stack relative to others) they will be at the top of their group 10 years later. The rank of the individuals will be maintained. If people maintain their potion on a trait relative to others over time, that trait is said to have high rank order stability. If people change their rank order, then group is displaying rank order instability. Definition: stable over time changes over time: average level of the trait in the population (high, low) remains. Constancy of level in a particular group: mean level change: if the average level of trait in the group.
