PSYB30H3 Lecture 6: Week 6
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Continuity of personality: do individual differences in some attribute at a given point in time predict individual differences in that same attribute at some later point in time? (x1. Coherence of personality: do individual differences in some attribute at a given point in time predict individual differences in some other attribute at some later point in time? (x1. Consistency of individual differences i. e. , relative position or rank order within a population of individuals over time. There are other kinds of continuity: mean level continuity or absolute continuity refers to whether or not there is change in how of an attribute there is on a given sample overtime. All of us at a given cohort tend to experience the same age related shifts becoming increasingly conscientious and agreeable and decreasingly neurotic and open. And when (if ever) does personality become set in stone: (freud) by age 5 or 6 everything to know about you is determined at this age.
