Exam 5: Personality Dispositions Over Time: Stability, Coherence, and Change

According to a longitudinal study conducted by George Kelly and Conley (1987),which of the following aspects of personality is NOT a strong predictor of marital dissatisfaction and divorce?

In the context of mean level stability and change in adulthood,according to Robins et al.(2001),students show _____ in neuroticism from freshman to senior years in college.

According to Jeronimus et al.(2014),people who experience very few stressful life events _____.

Impulsivity in men has been associated with:

According to Dan Olweus (1979),children classified as bullies in Grade 6 were more likely to _____.

In the context of rank order stability in adulthood,trait consistency reaches its peak after age:

In a longitudinal study,Bonanno et al.(2002)showed that one of the best predictors of coping well with the death of a spouse was the personality disposition of _____.

In a longitudinal study conducted by Howard Gardner and Bray (1988),in which 266 male managerial candidates at the business AT&T were first tested when they were in their twenties and then followed them up periodically over a 20-year time span when they were in their forties,it was observed that the most startling change was a steep drop in the _____ score for the sample as a whole.

The correlations between different measures of a single trait obtained at the same time are called:

Freud's theory of psychosexual development is an example of personality change at the _____ level of analysis.

Which of the following is NOT a subscale of sensation seeking?

In a longitudinal study spanning 40 years,Avshalom Caspi and his colleagues (1987)found that the men who as children had been classified as having explosive temper tantrums:

_____ can be defined as the continuities,consistencies,and stabilities in people over time and the ways in which people change over time.

According to Block and Robbins (1993),_____ is best defined as the extent to which one perceives oneself as relatively close to being the person one wants to be and/or as relatively distant from being the kind of person one does not want to be,with respect to person-qualities one positively and negatively values.

In the context of rank order stability in adulthood,Roberts and DelVecchio (2000)found that personality consistency:

Mary Rothbart and Hwang (2005)studied infants at different ages and found that temperament is:

In the context of marital stability,Buss (2003)found that husbands with low _____ when first assessed tended later in life to have extramarital affairs.

According to Jean Twenge (2001),women's _____ scores generally rose half a standard deviation from 1931 to 1945 and from 1968 to 1993.

According to Mary Rothbart and Hwang (2005),which of the following factors of temperament is probably the most stable?

In the context of mean level stability and change in adulthood,people score higher on _____ and _____ as they grow older.