Personality Development
This view says personality traits are fixed and biologically determined.
What is the traditional view of personality?
This type of stability refers to keeping your relative position compared to others.
What is rank-order stability?
A family is defined as this type of unit with shared emotional and social responsibilities.
What is a social unit?
Warm and strict parenting is known as this style.
What is authoritative parenting?
A peer is defined as someone roughly this characteristic.
What is the same age?
This view argues personality changes across the lifespan due to experience.
What is the contemporary view of personality?
This type of change refers to shifts in the average level of traits in a population.
What is mean-level change?
This concept means changes in one family member affect all others
What is a family system?
Cold and controlling parenting is known as this style.
What is authoritarian parenting?
This type of play involves children playing side by side but not interacting.
What is parallel play?
These five major traits include extraversion, agreeableness, and openness.
What is the Big Five?
A common method used to measure personality stability over time.
What is test-retest correlation?
This type of conflict shows respect and reduces harm to children
What is constructive conflict?
Warm but not demanding parenting is called this.
What is permissive parenting?
This technique measures peer acceptance by asking kids who they like most/least.
What is the sociometric technique?
The biggest personality changes tend to occur during this life stage.
What is young adulthood (around 18–30)?
This researcher argued personality is “set in plaster” after age 30.
Who is Costa & McCrae?
This theory suggests children learn behaviour by watching their parents.
What is social learning theory?
Cold and uninvolved parenting is this style.
What is uninvolved parenting?
Children who are liked by many and disliked by few are called this.
What are popular children?
This principle explains increases in responsibility and emotional stability over time.
What is the maturity principle?
This meta-analysis found that personality continues to change, even in older adults.
What is Bleidorn et al. (2022)?
This process involves children influencing parents and parents influencing children over time.
What is transactional socialization?
This parenting style is linked to the most socially competent children.
What is authoritative parenting?
This bias causes children’s reputations to stay stable over time.
What is reputational bias?