PSYCH 238 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Agreeableness, Cooperativeness, Posttraumatic Growth
28 Mar 2017
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Salience of a memory can change over time. Memories important for their expression of personal meaning. Creating self-defining stories to form a narrative identity. Who you are defined by the stories you tell. Essentially create a personality out of the stories you tell and remember, even if they don"t necessary represent reality. The stories you tell represent you more than what actually happened in those stories. Listeners play a role in the stories you tell. In adolescence, preferred listener is now a peer. 3 years old: developed ability to recall memories without parents. Reflective: what event meant to them, how it felt. Most strongly determined by the end of the story. Use stories to link different events in their life to a coherent self-biography. Integrating positive and negative elements of the story. Exploring negative life events related to health and maturity. Overall, how positive to negative is your story. Strength, power, expansion, mastery, control, dominance, autonomy, separation, and independence.
