Psychology 2550A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Psychobiography, Peace Corps, Transcendental Meditation

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2550A/B
• Professor: David Vollick

Document Summary

Internal experiences change what people become and influence the types of problems and coping strategies they develop. People experience different types of discrepancies between different aspects of the self, and these discrepancies influence their subsequent emotions and behaviour in predictable ways. Such discrepancies may be experiences not only from one"s own vantage point, but also from that of significant others. Found that various discrepancies have predictable emotional consequences and that different emotion lead to different patterns of coping with the perceived self- discrepancies. Reevaluate the negative interpretation of past painful events. Change actual behaviour to match an important standard. Start to make inferences about a person"s internal experience based primarily upon what we see him doing rather than upon what we have seen other people doing (stereotypes/theoretical constructs) Ask the individual to depict themselves (self-report) have normally been used for the clinician to make inferences rather than viewed as a means of conveying the client"s view himself.