Although there is an impressive collection of research supporting personality stability using the five-factor model, there is also research indicating personality change.
Ursula Staudinger and colleagues' perspective reconciles these differences by suggesting personality takes on two forms:
a. implicit and explicit development. b. adjustment and growth.
c. stability and change. d. qualitative and quantitative development.
Question 2
According to large-scale studies done on subjects ages 16 to the 80s in the United States and Great Britain, one personality trait disappears or is much less apparent in later life. Which is it?
a. openness
b. conscientiousness
c. neuroticism
d. extraversion
Behavioral and Social-Cognitive Approaches to Personality
Cumulative change for six personality-trait domains across the life course show distinct patterns.
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