The traditional, or essentialist, position regarding the stability of personality holds that
a. experiences and life transitions are most important in shaping personality.
b. it is parallel to the stability of cognitive abilities.
c. personality is highly relatively heritable and unstable in comparison to other psychological characteristics.
d. stability should be high throughout life because temperament/personality is first and foremost an essential and biologically based aspect of the individual.
D
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