CO SCI 136 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Trait Theory, Flunk, Impulsivity
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Conceptual issues: personality development, stability, coherence and change. What is personality development: can be defined as continuities, consistencies and stabilities in people over time and the way in which people change. Rank order stability: maintance of individual position within a group. If subemssive people rise up and put down the dominants then the group is displaying rank order instability or rank order change. Mean level stability: remains the same over time, the group exhibits high mean level stability. If average degree changes then they are displaying mean level change. Includes both elements of continuity and elements of change (continuity in underlying trait but change in outward manifestation) Population level: theorized about the changes that we all go through in navigating from infancy to adulthood. Freud"s theory contained conception of personality development that was presumed to apply to everyone on the planet.
