PSYB30H3 Chapter 6: Chapter 6.docx
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Chapter 6: continuity and change in traits: the roles of genes, environment, and time. In everyday talk, attributing a trait to someone assumes a certain unspecified degree of continuity over time (trait can last a week or even for the rest of someone"s life) Two types of continuity: absolute continuity: constancy in the quantity or amount of an attribute over time. How much of a trait did someone show from one period to the next. This concept never applied to single individual; it is usually understood in terms of group averages on a given trait. Determined by comparing test scores from both times of measure. Continuity relative to peers: may be less anxious as adult but still most anxious among peers. Low differential continuity correlation suggests that people change relative to one another over time on a given dimension but does not tell us in what direction people change. Absolute and differential continuity are totally unrelated.
