PSY230H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Individuation, Peak Experience, Subtyping
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We have general positive selves: most of us have reasonably positive days. It make sense that we"re okay most of the time. On the other hand, we also receive negative feedback from the world: this can be thought about as memory formation. The information will stick to memory because of the amygdala: we have this experience that we are generally okay, but we also carry around vulnerability. There are different ways that we have deficiencies. It makes sense that negative information (no matter how rare it is) are profoundly important. It will have a huge impact in the personality. Personality can be influenced by specific deficiencies. When issues aren"t activated, you"re generally functional positive self is being activated. Information that is transformative can"t take root because if you"re okay, why do you want it to change: we can"t change a system that is not destabilized.
