PSYB30H3 Chapter 10: PSYB30 Lecture 10 Chapter 10 Notes.docx
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Formation of separation between the self and other things in the world. Striving to become self expansive and self elevated. Our experiences of trust and mistrust is shaped by our attachment in early infancy with the caregiver. Hope: enduring belief in attainability of fervent wishes. (erik erikson: our stories of life is determined in early childhood. Early childhood images: acquiring large amount of images. Later childhood themes: can organize human intentions into coherent stories with beginnings, middle and ends. Will tell stores of what characters are striving for, communion and agency. Adolescence and ideological settings: teenager seeks internally consistent and logical system of belief (what they believe) Ideology of justice (value systems on human rights and freedoms, agentic side) and care (communal side. Good story must be true, and fit with historical record (credible) Sensible in chronology, good beginning, middle and end. (coherence) Good story must be differentiated by theme. (differentiation) Good story must have resolution of story conflicts (reconciliation.
