PSYC 2740 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Impulsivity, Narcissism, Longitudinal Study
27 Mar 2013
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Chapter 5: personality dispositions over time: stability, coherence, and change. Personality development continuities, consistencies and stabilities in people over time and ways people changer over time stability and change. Personality change has 2 defining qualities: changes are internal to person (not external surroundings) and changes are relatively enduring over time if change doesn"t last it is not called a development (ex. when sick body changes) Temperament individual differences that emerge very early in life, likely to have heritable basis and are often involved with emotionality or arousability. 6 levels of temperament mary rothbart. Personality traits tend to be more stable at end of infancy (9 to 12 months)as they mature. Stable individual differences seem to appear very early in life. Most temperament variables are modern levels of stability during first year of life. Stability of temperament tends to be higher over short intervals of time rather than longer.
