PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Heritability, Absolute Continuity, Longitudinal Study
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Chapter 6- continuity and change in traits: the roles of genes, environments, and time. Absolute continuity: the extent to which a personality attribute exists in the same amount over time. > usually refers to group averages on personality characteristics assessed at two or more points in time (not the single individual) Usually comes into play when personality psych consider hypotheses about human development. Differential continuity: the longitudinal consistency of individual differences-> assesses the extent to which people maintain their relative positions within a particular distribution with respect to a particular personality characteristic over time. > individual"s relative standing to one another on a given dimension. > extent to which individuals hold their relative positions on a trait dimension is calculated with a correlation coefficient-> individuals scores from time 1 and time 2-> high correlation coefficients (+1) means high differential continuity. Absolute continuity and differential continuity are completely unrelated to each other.
