PSYC 2740 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sensation Seeking, Personality Development, David Buss

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2740
• Professor: Stephen P Lewis

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Chapter 5, personality dispositions over time: stability, change, and coherence. _____ is defined as both the consistencies in people and the ways people change over time: 1, a. Rank order stability: c. mean level stability, d. personality coherence. Page: 138: when people maintain their position in a group over time, they display, a. mean level stability, b. rank order stability, c. personality coherence, d. possible selves. If we measured height from the age of 12 to 18, we would likely see high degrees of: a. mean level stability, b. rank order stability, c. rank order instability, d. both a and b. Page: 138: when the average level of a trait remains constant over time, we observe, a. mean level change, b. mean level stability. rank order stability, d. rank order instability. The finding that sensation seeking tends to decrease with age is an example of: a. mean level change, b. mean level stability. rank order stability, d. rank order instability.