FOOD 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Absolute Continuity, Twin Study, Trait Theory
21 Jan 2017
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Chapter 6: continuity and changes in traits: the roles of genes, environments, and. In everyday talk, attributing a trait to a person assumes a certain degree of continuity over time. If i tell you that my nephew is a very agreeable person, i am implying that in his high level of agreeableness has some staying power over time, i am suggesting that he. For a while : traits are not supposed to dramatically change from one day to next, if it did it wouldn"t be called traits. If the avg. scores of 18 and 28 were highly similar, then we night conclude that the group as a whole exhibited continuity on this trait. Low differential continuity means that peoples relative positions on the given dimension change unpredictably over time. Differental continuity in the adult years: people want to know if the individual differences in various physiological qualities are constant over time.
