PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Narration, Positive Illusions, Psychoanalysis
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Chapter 10: life scripts, life story: narrative identity: life story that make us who we are and bind aspects of our lives. The narrating mind: stories are more about symbolic meaning rather than facts, history (your past) is believability and coherence not empirical facts, we take role as narrator telling lived experience at conscious level. Highest conscious level leads to personal narrative: pragmatic mode: comprehend experience in terms of objectivity, proof, empirical observation and looks at cause and effect, very logical. Cannot make sense of motivation: narrative mode: looks at human desires/goals over time and meaningful ends of your behaviour. Believed affects are primary source of motivators of behaviour: affects can be amplified by [providing motivation. Must use rules or contingencies to control: humanism: believes humans are good, affirms with self-expression and love, normativists = negative scenes and emotions with anger, humanistic = negative scenes and emotions with fear + distress.
