PSY 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Extraversion And Introversion, Job Performance, Agreeableness
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Peak age for moratorium stage: 24: cognitive growth, personality (low neuroticism, higher in opened and contentiousness, relationships with parents, opportunities to explore, broader cultural context. 11. 2- which status are people in at age: 5 factors influence identity formation in adolescence (pg. Personality in adulthood: continuity (stability mccrae and costa (2003, 2008) consistency in ranking within a group)) and discontinuity (change) Genetic component to all of the big 5 personality factors. Differences and/or change from young adulthood to middle age: Differences and or change from middle to old age. More agreeableness: reducing the gap between ideal self and real self, changing standards of self-evaluation, comparing self to other older adults, not internalizing ageist stereotypes. Primary control: changing environment to bring in line with own wishes. Secondary control: changing self to bring in line with environmental forces. Aging workers may be able to maintain job performance because they used selective optimization with compensation to coping with aging.