AP PSYCHOLOGY

DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

ADULTHOOD PHYSICAL COGNITIVE AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

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The five-factor model of personality emphasizes
A
stability of personality characteristics over much of adult life.
B
normative influences on adaptive mechanisms in mid-life.
C
personality changes that occur during middle childhood.
D
five crises that adolescents and young adults experience that produce instability in personality.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Personality traits are understood as patterns of thought, feeling, and behaviour that are relatively enduring across an individual’s life span. The traits that constitute the five-factor model are extraversion, neuroticism, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness.

Detailed explanation-2: -The five-factor model of personality (FFM) is a set of five broad trait dimensions or domains, often referred to as the “Big Five”: Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism (sometimes named by its polar opposite, Emotional Stability), and Openness to Experience (sometimes named Intellect).

Detailed explanation-3: -Stability coefficients for the Big Five personality traits across 9 years were moderate to high, ranging from 0.73 to 0.97 in men and from 0.65 to 0.95 in women. The highest gender-equal stability was found for Openness to Experience and the lowest for Conscientiousness.

Detailed explanation-4: -The five broad personality traits described by the theory are extraversion (also often spelled extroversion), agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism. The five basic personality traits is a theory developed in 1949 by D. W.

Detailed explanation-5: -These five primary personality traits are extraversion (also often spelled extroversion), agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism.

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