PSYO 3280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Lev Vygotsky
14 Jan 2016
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Claim: ability to construct a life story emerges in adolescence. Young children may not be able to understand or produce a life story because their cognition isn"t developed enough yet. Important things happen during adolescence that enables us to begin our life story. Life narratives (full products, coherent integration; relations in a text) The way you tell your life story and perceive it/make sense of your experiences is largely a subjective perspective. Autobiographical reasoning (process leading to life story; relations in life between present and past) Autobiographical activity learned in social interactions; a socio-cultural process. People help and guide you and expect you to tell stories, sometimes in certain ways. Vygotsky emphasized the importance of other people and how they. Criteria for global coherence in a life story. The story ties together as a whole, in a global way: temporal: in west, linear/chronological.
