PSYC 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Jerome Kagan, Stuart Smalley, Longitudinal Study
Document Summary
Personality dispositions over time: stability, change, and coherence. Where does personality come from where does it go personality development: continuities, consistencies, stabilities in people over time and the way in which people change over time. Three key forms of personality stability rank order stability, mean level stability, personality coherence. Average level of the trait in the population (or group) remains stable over time. Personality coherence def. maintaining rank order for a trait relative to others but changing in the behavioral expression of the trait over time, the habitual acts may change, but the trait is still the same: e. g. , disagreeableness. Maintenance of rank order for a trait but changing in the behavioral expression of trait over time. Personality change: 2 defining change internal, changes are internal to a person, not changes in the external surrounding, and enduring, changes are enduring over time, not temporary.
