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abpsych 5

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Personality stability   rank order, mean level, and personality coherence  
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Rank order stability   the maintenance of individual position within a group  
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High rank order stability   ppl maintain their position of dominance and extraversion relative to the other members of group  
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Mean level stability   constancy of level  
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Mean level change   ppl tend as a group to get increasingly conservative as they get older  
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Manifestations of traits   complex form of personality development  
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Personality coherence   maintaining rank order in relation to other individuals but changing the manifestations of the trait  
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Personality coherence   doesn’t require the precise behavioral manifestations of a trait to remain the same  
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Personality coherence   continuity in the underlying trait but change in the outward manifestations of that trait  
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Personalty change   changes are internal & changes are relatively enduring over time  
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3 levels of analysis   population as a whole, group differences within the population, and individual differences within groups  
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Population as a whole   deals with the changes and constancies that apply more or less to everyone  
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There is a ____ in impulsive or risk-taking behavior as ppl age   decrease  
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Change in impulsivity level with age   population level of personality change  
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Group differences level   some changes over time affect different groups of ppl differently  
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Analogous sex differences   group differences level of personality analysis  
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Cultural or ethnic differences   group differences level  
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Which individuals will go through a midlife crisis   individual differences level  
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Temperament   the individual differences that emerge very early in life  
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Temperament   likely to have a heritable basis  
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Temperament   often involved with emotionality and arousability  
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Activity level   infant’s overall motor activity, including arm and leg movements  
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Fear   infant’s distress and reluctance to approach novel stimuli  
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Distress to limitations   child’s distress at being refused food, being dressed, being prevented access to desired object, being confined  
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Soothability   degree to which the child reduces stress or calms down as a result of being soothed  
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Duration of orienting   the degree to which the child sustains attention to objects in the absence of sudden changes  
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Show higher levels of stability over time for children   activity level and smiling and laughing  
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Personality traits tend to become   more stable towards the end of infancy (9-12 months)  
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Stability of temperament tends to be   higher over short intervals of time than over long intervals  
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Stability coefficients   test-retest reliability coefficients  
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Stability coefficients   correlations between the same measure obtained at 2 different points in time  
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Validity coefficients   correlations between different measures of the same trait obtained at the same time  
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Actometer-based measurements and judge-based measurements   have significant positive validity coefficients  
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Activity level shows   moderate stability during childhood  
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Size of correlations   tend to decrease as the time interval between the different testings increases  
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Longer the time between testings   the lower the stability coefficient  
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Individuals retain their rank order of   aggression over time  
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Big five   show moderate to high levels of rank order and individual stability through adulthood  
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Self-esteem   high levels of continuity over time  
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Personality consistency tends to   increase with increasing age  
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Personality consistency peaks at age   50  
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5-factor model of stability   shows fairly consistent mean level stability over time  
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Tendency for ____ to gradually decline with age until around 50 yrs   openness, extraversion, and neuroticism  
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Show an increase over time   conscientiousness and agreeableness  
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Most consistent change with age   ppl score lower on neuroticism or negative affect  
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Increases from middle adulthood to older age   emotional stability  
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_____ of personality change show moderate correspondence with ___ personality change   perceptions, actual  
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Big five personality dispositions may be changeable through   therapy  
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Men’s self-esteem tends to ____ with age   increase  
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Women’s self-esteem tends to_____ with age   decrease  
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Men and women experience differences in self-esteem   personality change at the group level  
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Studies on sensation seeking   ppl become more cautious and conservative with age  
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Trait of sensation seeking is described   mostly from the biological point of view  
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Sensation seeking peaks at   ages 18 to 20  
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Drop in femininity   from 40’s to 50’s  
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Men tend to   decline in psychological flexibility and to become less ambitious with time  
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Both men and women become more   competent and independent with age  
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Cohort effects   the social times in which they lived  
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Women’s scores of assertiveness   rose and fell depending on the cohort the women were raised in  
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Personality coherence   predictable changes in the manifestations or outcomes of personality factors over time  
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Predictors of marital dissatisfaction and divorce   neuroticism in husband and wife, low impulse control in husband  
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Strongest predictors of divorce   neuroticism  
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High on neuroticism   drug addiction  
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High in sensation seeking and impulsivity, low in conscientiousness and agreeableness   drug addiction  
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Best predictor for academic performance   conscientiousness  
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Impulsivity   academic achievement and work performance  
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Living a long life   high conscientiousness, extraversion, and low levels of hostility  
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