Chapter 8 - The Stories We Live By

Novel

Extended prose narratives that imaginatively depict the experience of being human.

Personal script

A predictable pattern of emotion and behavior played out over time.

Autobiographical memory

Is inaccurate for details but better at conveying the emotional gist of particular events.

Positively

Exposure to fiction is _____ correlated with social skills + empathy.

Reminiscnece bump

People tend to recall a dispropriate number of episodic memories between the ages of 15 and 25 years old.

Paradigmatic expression of human thought

How the world works through logic, empirical proof, theories, and arguments. Aims to reveal the truth

Verisimilitude

Lifelikeness, human plausibility → characteristic of stories.

Infantile amnesia

The absence of any autobiographical memories from the first 2/3 years of life.

Narrative mode of human thought

People create stories about intentional agents who pursue goals over time. Aims to explain why people do what they do

Narrative identity

Internalized and evolving story of the self that a person constructs to provide his /her life with unity, purpose, and meaning.

Conversational elaboration

Children are asked to reflect and elaborate upon their emotions, thoughts, and desires.

Autobiographical authorship

________ depends on motivated agency.

Modern sense of selfhood

In the modern world, people tend to see themselves as multifaceted, complex entities who develop over time and who are responsible for their own development.

Narrative identity

The process of constructing a ________ is shaped by gender, ethnicity, race, and social class.

Novel

extended prose narratives that imaginatively depict the experience of being human

Modern sense of selfhood

in the modern world, people tend to see themselves as multifaceted, complex entities who develop over time and who are responsible for their own development

Paradigmatic expression of human thought

how the world works through logic, empirical proof, theories, and arguments

Narrative mode of human thought

people create stories about intentional agents who pursue goals over time

Verisimilitude

lifelikeness, human plausibility → characteristic of stories

Scaffolding

stimulating the childs recollection and telling of the past by reminding the child of recent events

Conversational elaboration

children are asked to reflect and elaborate upon their emotions, thoughts, and desires

Status of identity achieved

the person has thoroughly examined different options available to them, then committed themselves to self-chosen values and goals for the future

Status of moratorium

young people are still exploring ideological and occupational options (they havent committed)

Status of foreclosure

young people never really explored their options but instead committed themselves to values and occupational goals that were presented to them early on in life

Status of identity diffusion

young people who have yet to explore or commit

Narrative identity

internalized and evolving story of the self that a person constructs to provide his/her life with unity, purpose, and meaning

It is a personal myth

it provides meaning and verisimilitude more than objective truth

Autobiographical memory

2-3 years old

Theory of mind

3-4 years old

Story grammar

5-6 years old

Cultural script

10-14 years old

Autobiographical reasoning and advanced storytelling skills

12-25 years old

Infantile amnesia

the absence of any autobiographical memories from the first 2/3 years of life

Self-defining memory

vivid, affectively charged, repetitive, linked to other similar memories, and related to an important unresolved them or recurrent concern in an individuals life

Personal script

a predictable pattern of emotion and behavior played out over time

Reminiscnece bump

people tend to recall a dispropriate number of episodic memories between the ages of 15 and 25 years old

Children's stories

Are based on lived experience

Scaffolding

Stimulating the child's recollection and telling of the past by reminding the child of recent events

Status of identity achieved

The person has thoroughly examined different options available to them, then committed themselves to self-chosen values and goals for the future

Status of moratorium

Young people are still exploring ideological and occupational options (they haven’t committed)

Status of foreclosure

Young people never really explored their options but instead committed themselves to values and occupational goals that were presented to them early on in life

Status of identity diffusion

Young people who have yet to explore or commit

2/3 years old

Development of autobiographical memory

3/4 years old

Development of the theory of mind

5/6 years old

Development of story grammar

10/14 years old

Development of the cultural script

12/25 years old

Development of autobiographical reasoning and advanced storytelling skills

Self-defining memory

Vivid, affectively charged, repetitive, linked to other similar memories, and related to an important unresolved theme or recurrent concern in an individual's life