Personality Stability and Change in Psychology

Personality change in college students over a four-year period

Comparison of personality traits between adolescents and older individuals

Rank-order stability of personality traits in young adults over a four-year period (correct)

Mean-level stability of personality traits in different age groups

Cross-sectional studies comparing people of different ages

Observational studies of individual behaviors

Longitudinal studies following individuals across their lives (correct)

Experimental studies manipulating levels of conscientiousness

The consistency of individual differences in relative standing on a trait over time (correct)

The change in an individual's trait from what it used to be

The correlation between different personality traits

The average level of a trait remaining constant across different age groups

<p>Rank-order stability focuses on individual differences in relative standing, while mean-level stability focuses on average levels across age groups.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cross-sectional studies collecting data at one time and comparing people of different ages</p> Signup and view all the answers