PSYC 2330 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Midlife Crisis, Longitudinal Study, Schizophreniform Disorder

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2330
• Professor: Stephen Lewis

Document Summary

Personality dispositions over time: stability, coherence, and change. Personality development: the continuities, consistencies, and stabilities in people over time. 3 important forms of stability: rank order stability: is the maintenance of individual position within a group, mean level stability: population or majority in one favour i. e. population remaining liberal. While at age 20 the same kid shows his dominance persuading others to accept his political views, asking girl out on date etc. The changes are typically internal to the person, not merely changes in the external surroundings such as walking into another room. The changes are relatively enduring over time, rather than being merely temporary. Population level: deals with changes and constancies that apply more or less to everyone. i. e. everyone in the population tends to increase in sexual motivation at puberty. Group differences level: gender differences, as well as cultural and ethnic.