PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Autobiographical Memory, 2-Step Garage, Narration
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Many scholars contended that modern lives are meaningful to the extent that they conform to or express culturally meaningful stories. A person"s identity is not to be found in behavior nor in the reactions of others, but in the capacity to keep a particular narrative going. Though life stories are 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. Traits provide a dispositional outline concerning cross-situational trends in behavior (level 1) Characteristic adaptations fill in the details by specifying motivational, social-cognitive, and developmental issues and concerns (level 2) Life stories tell us how a person sees his or her life in the overall and over time and what the overall meaning and purpose of that life might be (level 3)
