PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Psychosexual Development, Personality Development, Midlife Crisis
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Chapter 5: personality dispositions over tine: stability, coherence, and change. Conceptual issues: personality development, stability, coherence, and change: Personality development definition: the continuities, consistencies, and stabilities in people over time and the ways in which people change over time. Rhere are many forms of personality stability and personality change. Three most inmportnat forms of stability are: rank order stability, mean level stability, personality coherence. Rank order stability is the maintenance of individual position within a group. Ex: between ages 14-20 people get taller their rank order of height remains stable since this development affects all people similarly= adding few inches to everyone. So, in a sense taller people get taller. Short definition: maintenance of an individual positions within a group. Mean level stability: for example, if people in the group like orange lollipops and this preference remains over time, then this group shows high mean level stability.
