PSYC35H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Trait Theory, Emerging Adulthood And Early Adulthood, Extraversion And Introversion
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3 levels of personality (framework of understanding people and everything as a whole: personality trait/disposition: general, internal, and comparative dispositions that account for the consistency in people"s behaviour (person as actor) Trait psychology -> traits of the stranger: characteristic adaptation ( waste bin ): adaption to motivational-cognitive-developmental challenges that people confront across the life span(person as agent) Fill in the detail of the person: integrative life stories (person as author): internalized self-narratives that integrate pastpresent, and future to provide life with a sense of unity and purpose. Traits speak to general social and emotional functioning that manifest early in life. Differential continuity defined as the extent to which the relative rank order of individuals is maintained by a population over time, as indexed by the test-retest correlation. Differential continuity increase with age and decrease with time between . Mean-level change defined as the extent of change in the quantity of some attribute over time.
