PSYCH356 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Harm Avoidance, Longitudinal Study, Extraversion And Introversion
11 Feb 2018
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Inhibited children (8%) where socially reticent, fearful, and easily upset by strangers. Individuals who were well-adjusted at age 3 had scores that were close to the sample average on most traits at age 18. Individuals who were under-controlled at age 3 exhibited below average self-control and harm avoidance but above average aggression, alienation, and stress at age 18. Individuals who were inhibited at age 3 exhibited below average aggression, achievement, and social potency but above average self-control and harm avoidance at age 18. Individual"s dispositions actively shape the environments they experience over the lifespan in ways that feedback to reinforce and stabilize those dispositions. Individuals whose personalities are more similar to that of their spouses will show greater stability in their own personality over time. Lecture six: interactionism: explaining variance in social behavior , behavior is a function of the individual and the environment. The personality factor representing between-person variance in behavior. The situation factor represents within-person variance in behavior.
