PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Longitudinal Study, Personality Development, Neuroticism
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Personality development: the continuities, consistencies, and stabilities in people over time and the ways in which people change over time. Two facets s t a b i l i t y. Three important forms of stability are: rank order stability, mean-level stability. Rank order stability: the maintenance of individual position within a group. Population that maintains a consistent average level of a trait or characteristic over time. High rank order stability to personality characteristics: if people tend to maintain their position on dominance or extraversion relative to others over time. Rank order instability, or rank order change:if people fail to maintain their rank order if the submissive people rise up and put down the dominants. *(when people maintain their position in a group over time, they display: rank order stability)* *(if we measured height from the age of 12 to 18, we would likely see high degrees of: rank order stability)*
