01:830:338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Personality Development, Longitudinal Study, Femininity

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:338
• Professor: Professor Lyra Stein

Document Summary

Conceptual issues: personality development, stability, coherence, and change. Personality development: continuities, consistencies, stabilities in people over time, and the way in which people change over time. Maintenance of an individual"s position within group. Maintaining rank order relative to others but changing in the manifestations of trait. Internal: changes are internal to a person, not changes in the external surrounding. Enduring: changes are enduring over time, not temporary. Population level: changes or constancies that apply more or less to everyone. Group differences level: changes or constancies that affect different groups differently. Temperament: individual differences that emerge very early in life, are heritable, and involved behaviors are linked with emotionality. As assessed by caregivers, temperament factors include activity level, smiling and laughter, fear, distress to limitations, soothability, and the duration of orienting. Stable individual differences emerge early in life, where they can be assessed by observers.