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Personality development
Continuities, consistencies, stabilities in people over time, and the way in which people change over time
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3 forms stability: Rank order stability
Maintenance of an individual position’s within group
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3 forms stability: Mean level stability
Constancy of level in population
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3 forms of stability: Personality coherence
Maintaining rank order relative to others but changing in the manifestations of trait
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2 qualities of change: Internal
Changes are internal to a person, not changes in the external surrounding
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2 qualities of change: enduring
Changes are enduring over time, not temporary
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change 3 levels of analysis: Population level
Changes or constancies that apply more or less to everyone
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change 3 levels of analysis: Group differences level
Changes or constancies that affect different groups differently
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Change 3 levels of analysis: individual difference level
e.g., Can we predict who is at risk for psychological disturbance later in life based in earlier measures of personality
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What are the 3 levels of analysis of change?
- Population level
- group difference level
- individual difference level
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Stability over time: infancy temperment
Individual differences that emerge very early in life, are heritable, and involved behaviors are linked with emotionality
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Longitudinal study
Investigation of same group of individuals over time
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3 main points of personality development
- Stability
- change
- coherance
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