PSYB30H3 Chapter 10: Chapter 10 Key Terms
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Though life stories are, and should be grounded in reality, they are nonetheless imaginative and creative productions that each of us constructs and reconstructs as we move through our adult years. We make a life by making a story and the stories we make become parts of who we are. A person"s internalized and evolving life story (narrative identity) is just as much a part of his or her personality as are his or her dispositional traits and characteristic adaptations. Bruner suggests that human being evolved to interpret personal experience in terms of stories. He argues that human beings understand the world in two very different ways . Paradigmatic mode: we seek to comprehend our experience in terms of tightly reasoned analyses, logical proof, and empirical observation. We seek to order our world in terms of logical theories that explain events and help us predict and control reality. Good logicians and scientists are well trained in this way of thinking.
