Given that childhood personality carries over to adulthood, in specific, what can you say about the influence of childhood personality traits
Review
You Aren’t at the Mercy of Your Emotions — Your Brain Creates Them | Lisa Feldman Barrett (Youtube video)
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This is a brief overview of the abnormal aspect of personality development.
Review this week’s assigned reading and the following resource to prepare for this discussion.
What is Attachment Theory? Bowlby’s 4 Stages Explained.
A great deal of personality growth and development has taken place in childhood, including the coalescence of temperament into traits, and the development of substantial models of the self and the world.
Respond
Given that childhood personality carries over to adulthood, in specific, what can you say about the influence of childhood personality traits on adulthood? What about mental models such as attachment developed in childhood?
Findings in the middle 1970s indicated that personality traits are relatively set for the individual by young adulthood. There are, however, individual changes, as well as group changes, in the overall level of traits. How do the Big Five personality traits, for example, change over adulthood?
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