abpsych 5 Word Scramble

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

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