Psychology / Unit 8 Psych 0857 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Stability and Change
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The idea
The stability question asks which characteristics persist across the lifespan and which are reshaped by later experience.
In practice
Shyness at three predicts adult reticence weakly, and it predicts it better than chance.
Where people slip
Weak prediction is neither stability nor its absence. Most traits sit in that middle range.
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