PSY 216 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Midlife Crisis, Longitudinal Study, Trait Theory
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William james and sigmund freud: personality was set before childhood. Carl jung: personality was shaped throughout life. Mcadams: three parallel levels of personality structure and function: Aspects of personality that are consistent across different contexts and can be compared across a group along a continuum. Level of personality most people think of first, and it includes commonly used descriptor such as shy, talkative, and authoritarian. Things that is important to people goals, and their major concern in life. Aspects of personality that pull everything together, the integrative aspects that gives a person identity or sense of self. Creation of an identity is the goal: as one moves from dispositional traits to personal concerns to life narrative, the more likely it is that change will be observed. Biases about continuity and discontinuity are more obvious in personality research than in any other area of adult development. Thinking about what some of those characteristics are.
