PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Autobiographical Memory, Pollination Syndrome, Trait Theory
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Personality development: continuity and change over the life course dan p. Even observable in animals: dispositional traits speak to broad difs and consistencies that appear even at the beginning of the human life span. Since birth, human actor"s performances can be observed (cheerful babies vs distressed babies) From temperament to traits: temperament is the early-in-life framework out of which personality traits develop, caspi et. Social dominance-related traits increase through age 30. Social vitality-related traits decrease after 50: openness to experience increases up to age 20 and then decreases after 50. Increases in neuroticism over time predicted higher levels of mortality for older men. The agentic self: intentionality and the articulation of goals: a sense of personal agency emerges gradually over the early years of personality development, beginning with appreciation of human intentionality. 1 y/os behave in ways that suggest they know what others are trying to do.
