PSYB30H3 : PSYB30_Lec 10.docx
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All aspects of personality develop over the life (traits/goals/motives/marital success)continuity/development. How early in life do traits emerge and how similar/dissimilar they remain over the life course. *both continuity and heritability are conceptually separate topicsjust cuz it"s heritable, doesn"t mean it"s continuous! Something can be heritable and not continuous and vice versa. Mid 1960"s1964director michael aptedmade landmark documentary serieswas interested in. One reason we don"t rely on anecdotes is b/c a single case can"t tell us about the continuity of traits in the general population! So, we rely on data to find about continuity or change in ppl. Personality continuity refers to the stability of individual differences in some attribute; assume: the attribute itself doesn"t experience any kind of change/maturation! Ex. what we mean by extroversion at age 20 (time 1) is not different from what we mean by extroversion at age 50 (time 2).
