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| A persons internalized and evolving life story - is just as much as his personality as is the dispositional traits and characteristic adaptations |
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| Importance of Narrative Identity |
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| why life stories are no less or more important for understanding a person than are traits and adaptations they do provide a different kind of information about psychological individuality. traits level 1 provided dispositional outline concerning cross-situational trends in behaviour; characteristic adaptations (level 2) fill in the details by specifying motivational social cognitive and developmental issues and concerns; stories (level 3) a person sees his or her life in over overtime what the overall meaning and purpose of that life might be. levels of personality are an important. In order to attain as full and account as possible psychological individuality the personality psychologist needs to examine the person's paternity of dispositional traits, characteristic adaptations, and integrative life stories. |
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| Importance of Narrative Identity 1 |
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| consciousness involves the continuous narration or telling of lived experience come up I kind of stream of online narration that flows through the minds of most sentient human beings . thank you is that human consciousness is a matter of mentally taking on the position of a narrator. |
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| Jerome suggest that human beings evolved to interpret personal experience in terms of stories. argues that human beings understand the world in two very different ways (The Pragmatic Mode and The Narrative Mode) |
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Jerome suggest that human beings evolved to interpret personal experience in terms of stories. argues that human beings understand the world in two very different ways. The first is the pragmatic mode of thought. pragmatic mode, comprehend experience in partly recent analysis, logical proof, and empirical observation.
Much of our educational training reinforces the pragmatic mode. Good logicians and scientists are especially well trained in the general way of thinking. |
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| the narrative mode of Thor concerns itself with stories, which themselves are about the messages of human intention organised in time in stories events are not explained in terms of physical or logical causes the narrative mode does not generally operate in the realm of boredom intermolecular chemistry instead of joules of human wants needs and goals the narrative mode events are explained in terms of human actors driving to do that home. |
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| Power of Stories (403 - 425) |
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| beyond entertaining and edifying us, stories may also function to integrate aspects of our lives and to heel that which is sick or broken. Some scholars and scientists have suggested that integration and healing a two primary psychological functions of stories and storytelling. bring a live together when we feel mend us when we are broken, , help us in times of stress, and move is towards psychological fulfillment and maturity. |
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| Combination of Fact and Emotion when disclosing traumatic events is the most effective |
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| in one study they tested spelling ability of disclosing stories that are dramatic a one there was a control only spoke about emotions only spoke about facts in the lives and one group spoke about accommodation on facts and emotions about their traumatic events. go dad the group who self wrote about the traumatic stories with a combination of both emotion the most positive in regards to further mental illness is in the future. also those who talk with family members instead of just remunerating with themselves have fewer problems |
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| Why we should talk to others |
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| when talking with others, confiding and consciously confronting the perceptions and feelings associated with a traumatic event allow for the integration of cognitive the reorganization of the event. the narrative disclosure of the event and I was the person to put it behind him or her on the problem. function and physiological arousal, such as heart palpitations skin conductance high blood pressure and indicate the need for further obsessing and inhibiting |
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| Writing should be honest (using negative words when necessary and clear and concise) |
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| when writing self-disclosure stories about traumatic events they found that boat the disclosure of negative emotions buds to just tell him positive and the building of a clear cognitive story 1 dad is unclear and misleading are important components in healthy writing . over time the move towards a well-constructed story is a desired outcome in writing and some forms of therapy, and it appears to bring with it benefits for health. |
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| when writing self-disclosure stories about traumatic events they found that boat the disclosure of negative emotions buds to just tell him positive and the building of a clear cognitive story 1 dad is unclear and misleading are important components in healthy writing . over time the move towards a well-constructed story is a desired outcome in writing and some forms of therapy, and it appears to bring with it benefits for health. narrative identity, go to the internal eyes and evolving story of the self justly and unconsciously constructs different aspects of the self. gently provide the person's life with something , purpose, and meaningful. |
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| temporal, biographical, casual, and thematic coherence |
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| (life story schemas) . the life story schema is a mental structure of pattern for putting a life into story form for making a narrative identity out of a human life. there are at least 4 different mental skills in order to construct a procurement life story. First, and most basic they must be able to construct the little, goal-directed stories about single episodes in their lives. this is called (temporal coherence) is that a person can narrate a sequence of actions that happened overtime. second, people must be able to confirm their autobiographical understanding to society's expectations of the life course common cold (biographical coherence) early adolescence most people have a pretty good sense of society's expectations regarding the life course comma for example if I go to school when their young when I get married and they have kids. Third, (casual coherence) begins to emerge in mid adolescence as people become able to connect or events in their lives in casual narrative. a 15 year old May explain how she reached her current level of disappointment regarding a boyfriend how the way should began, developed, deteriorated. finally, become interestingly effective with respect to the magic coherence as they move into and through late adolescence (thematic coherence), a person is able to derive a general theme or principal about themselves based on a narrative overrated sequence of personal events. a life story schema, then, involves and implicit understanding of temporal, biographical, casual, and thematic coherence. once people have this understanding they are able to develop their own narrative identities |
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| 4 forms of coherence in the life story |
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| 4 forms of coherence in the life story. 1 temporal coherence ; what a goal directed Life episode by telling a story about it., biographical coherence ; the cultural expectations regarding the nature and timing of life episodes and events across the life course. casual coherence linking multiple life episodes into a meaningful sequence that provides a casual explanation. For thematic coherence; deriving an integrated theme or principal about the self from a narrated sequence of episodes. |
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| for many children aged 2 marks the emergence of an autobiographical self. in preschool years the autobiographical, storytelling self becomes more sophisticated and effective. before they head to kindergarten they have developed the simple theory of mind . for example two people form wants and desires in their minds, and they then act upon those wants and desires. by the time they are 5 years old they know what stories are about and what stories should contain. in terms of stories theory of mind tells them that characters act upon their own desires and beliefs in order to achieve goals in the world goal-directed action is at the heart of stories |
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| scaffolding. the child help in constructing stories and by encouraging the child to talk about daily events in story terms, parents provide what developmental psychologist Cole a scaffolding for the making of personal narratives. of the verbal and psychological that parents and others provide for children as children build their own sense of who they are in the world. |
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| life identity and stories. |
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| along our life we collect and manage different kinds of experiences, translate those experiences into story form, and save those stories has been coded episodes in autobiographical memory. be arrived in adolescence ready to make sense of who we are, bestowed with a wealth of experience of stuff which our identities are made of. These resources are what we use for our life stories there is much that we can do with these resources, many possibilities that we can create. But in identity, as in life, we can never fully transcend our resources |
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| psychosocial construction. |
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| psychosocial construction. this means that although the story is constructed by the person , the possibilities for story construction, narrative identity formation, are determined by culture |
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| themes of agency and communion in significant autobiographical episodes. |
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1. Agency ( self-mastery, achievement status ).
- 2. Communion (flash friendship, dialogue Unity.
themes of agency and communion in life stories are consistently related to people's motivational tendencies.
whereas agency and communion referred to content themes in autobiographical re collections, of differentiation and integration refer more to the structure or style of the narrative |
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| studies underscore the importance of four kinds of events that are vividly recalled |
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| studies underscore the importance of four kinds of events that are vividly recalled . originating events, marking the beginning of a plot line in the story; . points, marking a significant change from one plot line to another; 3. Anchoring events, representing the stability or continuity of a given plot line; and 4. events, displaying a pattern of activity that is very similar to what you can see in our family of other events in the life story |
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self-defining memories to denote recollections of events in one's life that the person believes to have been especially influential in shaping who he or she is.
conflict memories were often memories that were seen as promoting growth and insight. please have shown that accounts of self-defining memories growth and Insight associate psychological well-being and higher levels of psychosocial maturity
crowding in addition people do not focus on our personal stories of meaningful events in our lives studies show we tend to dismiss and even forget these memories that we were telling. audiences help us to figure out what else stories mean and they started Lee work to shape and change our stories overtime |
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| stories. identified for mythic or basic story forms comedy comedy tragedy, Romance irony. note women's life stories may be different to men's life stories men's. men's life stories can relate to heroes stories. criminals have a reform narrative. |
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| the redemptive self ; characterizing life stories highly generative American adults |
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the redemptive self ; characterizing life stories highly generative American adults . 1 early advantage. 2 suffering of others. 3 moral steadfastness 4. Redemption sequences 5. Prosocial future.
these stories were with white americans however black Americans shared a very similar story |
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| Redemption Sequence vs Contamination Sequence |
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one of the most appealing features of life stories told by highly generated American adults is the Redemption sequence. A redemption sequence, is a bad or emotionally negative scene turns suddenly good or emotionally positive. In contrast, contamination sequence is the move in narrative from an emotionally positive or good scene to an emotionally negative or bad outcome
Redemption sequences are characterized by greater psychological well-being, in contrast contamination sequences are characterized by psychological well-being or depression |
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| Redemption Sequence vs Contamination Sequence 2 |
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Redemption and contamination sequences predict these well-beings for two reasons . first Redemption and contamination sequences reflect objective reality from the past. EG. abusive childhood. Second these narratives depend on your reflection of the past and how you view it . for example, positive outcome for growth a negative outcome for debilitation
therefore, it is likely that individual differences in the ways in which people narrate self-defining memories reflects both differences in the objective past and differences in the Styles and manners in which people choose to make narrative sense of life |
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| Life Story is not smooth or consistent |
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| we see therefore that it is misleading to characterize the development of the life story in adulthood as either a smooth and continuous, a fair or a rollercoaster process of repeated change and growth. The development is both smooth and sudden Tranquil and tumultuous. dramatic change and Reformulation may be followed by long periods in which very little story making is seems to occur. Every life is different in this regard, and every life story follows a unique course of development |
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| increasingly good narrative form (6. points) |
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| increasingly good narrative form. 1. Coherence 2. Openness 3. Credibility. 4. differentiation. 5 reconciliation and 6. generated integration. of the good story in human identity suggest considerable maturity in the search for Unity, is one that receives high marks on these 6 narrative standards |
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| Identity Crisis (1 = same over time, 2 = different over time) |
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| In B's view of identity crisis is how he or she is (1) essentially the same time and how he or she is (2) essentially different |
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| Indigenous Australian perspective |
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| Within the Indigenous community, there is an estimated 600–700 dialects that are spoken. There are over 250 language groups and of these language groups, approximately 60 are still in use and 110 are critically endangered. The Indigenous community comprise of 3% of the Australian population and they have been custodians of the land for at least 50,000 years. One third of the Indigenous Australians live in major cities and their life expectancy is approximately 10 years less than non-Indigenous groups. The national imprisonment rate is approximately 15 times higher for Indigenous Australians than for non-Indigenous Australians. |
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| Social structure and identity of Aboriginals |
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The community is the larger group (e.g. Darug nation). The social structure within a community is as follows:
- A community is comprised of a clan (two or more family groups that share an area of land), skin names (a sub-division of societies/community into named categories) and totems (inherited spiritual emblem—this defines peoples roles and responsibilities; it is important to never kill your totem).
- A clan is comprised of parents and siblings.
- Within the wider circle of parents and siblings is the children. |
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| Aboriginal perspective (Communal/collective) |
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Derive a sense of who we are from:
Our connection with our community.
Our connection to country.
Our connection to other people.
Our connection with our culture. |
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| Western perspective (individualistic) |
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Derive a sense of who we are from:
Our individual interactions with the world.
Our individual desires.
Our successes and failures.
Even though there are differences between Aboriginal and Western perspectives, there is a similarity in perspectives: We all share our sense of identity with others through storytelling and narrative |
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In order to obtain a full account of psychological individuality, the personality psychologist needs to:
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examine the person’s patterning of dispositional traits.
characteristic adaptations.
integrative life stories.
All of these options. |
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In the paradigmatic mode, we look for ____________ relationships.
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cause and effect
personal
impersonal
educational |
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Which of the following is not an example of good narrative form?
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Coherence.
Credibility.
Openness.
Conflict. |
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