PSYC 332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Trait Theory, Big5, Longitudinal Study

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 332
• Professor: Richard Koestner

Document Summary

Attachment style: another personality construct, individual diff. measure, that would fall in second level of mcadams 3 level model. Phenomenon in studying young children and the relationship with their mother in particular. It is something you can look at and code and think about between a mother and child, and you can think about it in terms of the relationship between two romantic partners, husband and wife. You can even think about attachment in friendships and whether you have a secure and anxious friendship with someone else- less common to think about. Examining the security of an attachment- something you can apply to very young children, or later in life. Personality perspective- natural to wonder whether there is links between our attachment of or mother when we were young and our current attachments in relationships in particular. Measuring attachment in children- they use a formal paradigm called the strange situation.