PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Extraversion And Introversion, Sage Gateshead, Big Five Personality Traits
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Agency: focus on the self, formation of separations, striving for self expansion and self elevation. Communion: focus on others, formation of connections, striving for contact and congregation with others. Early infant caregiver attachments serve to organize our experiences of trust vs. mistrust. Erik erikson hope: the enduring belief in the attainability of fervent wishes : optimistic stories (comedy & romance, pessimistic stories (tragedy & irony) The nursery school is busy acquiring a stockpile a rich, emotionally laden images from family, school, the media, etc. Culturally grounded or sanctioned images provide raw material for later life story development. The elementary school child is able to organize human intentions into coherent stories with beginnings, middles, and endings. As accounts of human intentions, stories tell what the characters are striving for: themes of separation and mastery (agency, themes of union and solidarity (communion) The teenager seeks an internally consistent and logical system of beliefs/values .
