If We Consider Whether Personality in Young Adulthood Predicts Personality

question 72

Multiple Choice

If we consider whether personality in young adulthood predicts personality in late adulthood, we are concerned with which of the following controversies or issues?

• A) nature-nurture
• B) stability-change
• C) continuity-discontinuity
• D) quantitative-quantitative

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Definitions:

Thomas, Chess and Birch

Refers to researchers who developed the New York Longitudinal Study, identifying three major temperamental types in children: easy, difficult, and slow-to-warm-up.

Temperament Types

Categories used to describe and understand individual differences in emotional and behavioral responses from an early age.

Easy

Something that can be achieved or completed with little effort or difficulty.

Mary Ainsworth

A developmental psychologist known for her work on attachment theory, especially the Strange Situation procedure to observe attachment relationships between a caregiver and child.