PSYB30H3 Chapter 12: Chapter 12 Key Terms
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Chapter 12 writing stories of lives: biography and life course. He advocated a broad and interdisciplinary approach to studying human lives, and he put special emphasis on the interpretation of fantasy stories and autobiographical narratives. Icarus complex: murray"s concept for a cluster of themes in personality functioning, including urethral erotism, ascensionism, cynosural, narcissm, falling, craving for immorality, and depreciation and enthrallment of women all modeled after the ancient greek story of icarus. Proceeding: smallest meaningful unit of time in human behaviour it is a single episode of behaviour abstracted from the temporal complexity of ongoing life. We may see it as a single instance of interaction between a person and his or her environment, an interaction long enough to initiate and complete a dynamically significant pattern of behaviour. Durance: when you take all of the overlapping proceedings during a given period of time.
