PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Personality Development, Trait Theory, Longitudinal Study
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Chapter 5 (personality dispositions over time: stability, coherence, and change) Personality development: continuities, consistencies, and stabilities in people over time and the ways in which people change over time. Rank order stability: the maintenance of individual position within a group. >for example ages 14-20 people become taller but the rank order of heaight tend to be the same because development affects all people the sam e. Mean level stability: consistency of levels of personality stability. Ex if conservatisim remains over time the group exhibits high mean level stability. Mean level change: within a single group that has been tested on two separate occasions, any differences in group averages across the 2 occasions. For example if people tend to get increasingly conservative as they get older then that population is displaying mean level change. Personality coherence: maintaining rank order in relation to other individuals but changing the manifestations of the trait.
