PSYB30H3 Chapter 10: Chapter 10 Notes
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Life stories are grounded in reality, but none the less 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. Storytelling is a fundamental way of expressing ourselves and our worlds to others. Damasio says that human consciousness is a matter of mentally taking on the position of a narrator. Jerome bruner suggests that humans evolved to interpret personal experience in terms of stories; that they understand that world in two different ways: Paradigmatic mode of thought: we seek to comprehend our experience in terms of tightly reasoned analyses, logical proof, and empirical observation; logical, causal reasoning; scientists, logicians. Narrative mode of thought: in stories, events are explained in terms of human actors striving to do things over time.
