PSYC 2740 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Pediatric Schizophrenia, Conscientiousness, Reduced Affect Display

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2740
• Professor: Stephen Lewis

Document Summary

Personality development - the continuities, consistencies, and stabilities in people over time and the ways in which people change over time. Stability (over time) --> rank order: the maintenance of individual position within a group (e. g. , height, rank order change for example is when people who are submissive in a group rise up and put down the dominants. -> mean level stability: example: the average level of liberalism or conservationism in a group remains the same over time, mean level change for example is if people tend to get increasingly conservative as they get older. -> personality coherence: maintaining rank order in relation to other individuals but changing the manifestations of. Analyzing stability and change: population, deals with the changes and constancies that apply more or less to everyone, e. g. , everyone in the pop. Tends to increase in sexual motivation at puberty: group differences, sex differences are an example, cultural or ethnic groups.