PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Thought Suppression, Dodo (Alice'S Adventures In Wonderland), Big Five Personality Traits
Document Summary
Week 11: lecture 10: march 25, 2015: life-story formation. Striving for self-expansion and self-elevation: communion. Striving for contact and congregation with others. Two fundamental themes in individuals and how we interact with other. The tone of infancy: early infant-caregiver attachments serve to organize our experiences of trust vs. mistrust. The earliest experiences we have will set the tone of our stories. If inconsistent and disruptive leads to pessimistic stories. Even before we"re able to speak, a tone is set in our stories: erik erikson hope: the enduring belief in the attainability of fervert wishes . Early childhood images: the nursery school child is busy acquiring a stockpile of rich, emotionally laden images from family, school, the media, etc. These are the building blocks for our stories: culturally grounded or sanctioned images provide raw material for later life-story development. E. g. superman as a character is inspiring because of how unoriginal he is.
