PSYC 2600 Chapter 5: Personality Chapter 5.docx

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2600
• Professor: Elizabeth Nisbet

Document Summary

Personality chapter 5: personality dispositions over time: stability, coherence and change. Personality development: the continuities, consistencies and stabilities in people over time and the way they change. 3 types of stability: rank order stability-maintenance of individual position within a group (change is called rank order change) Personality coherence-maintaining rank order in relation to other individuals but changing the way the trait manifests (ex. Aggression in toddlers is seen through temper tantrums, in adults it"s seen through fighting and instability) Personality change: typically internal and are relatively enduring. Three levels of analysis: population level-changes that apply to the entire population. Differences that emerge early in life and are likely to have a heritable basis) Childhood: block and block longitudinal study of 3 and 4 year olds using actometers (most traits emerge before this in infancy) Mean level change gradually (neuroticism and extraversion gradually decline over time while openness and agreeableness increase)