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This is the layer where an individual enacts roles and displays traits by performing behaviors in the presence of other.
Self as a social actor
Define personality.
A person’s characteristic variation on the evolved design for human nature.
Posited the Narrative Theory
Dan McAdams
Story of the self that is internalized and evolving and reconstructs the past and anticipates the future in such a way as to provide a person’s life with some degree of unity, meaning, and purpose over time.
Narrative Identity
This theory asserts that intrinsic goals tap into deep sources of human satisfaction, whereas extrinsic goals aim for external rewards such as wealth and social recognition.
Self-determination Theory
This is the characteristic style of expressing and regulating emotions.
temperament
The three layers of personality
Self as a social actor, self as a motivated agent, self becoming an autobiographical author
What dimension of narrative identity is demonstrated in the following life story account? Abigail describes the death of her father as reinvigorating closer emotional ties to ther other family members.
Redemption
What dimension of narrative identity is demonstrated in the following life story account? The protagonist of the story is excited about a promotion at work but learns that it came at the expense of his friends’ being fired.
Contamination
Parents with this style ask their children to reflect and elaborate upon their emotions, thoughts, and desires.
Conversational elaboration
The age that normal children develop that ability to attribute mental states such as beliefs to themselves and to other people as a way of making sense of and predicting behavior.
4 years old
Developmental emergence in the development of narrative identity that occurs at 5-6 years of age.
Story grammar
What occurs during the middle adulthood stage of development?
• Midlife reviews and midcourse corrections: Reassessing goals and making changes.
• Goals related to raising children, running a household, civic engagement, passing on cultural traditions.
• Ability to manage goals in order to minimize conflict.
• Increase in intrinsic motivation.
The age at where infants show a strong preference for observing and imitating the goal-directed, intentional behavior of others, rather than random behaviors.
1 year
What occurs during young adulthood stage of development?
• Establishing an identity: Exploring range of life goals (and values) and committing to subset that aims to provide life with meaning and purpose.
• Promotion focus greater than prevention focus.
• Goals related to education, jobs, friendships, love and marriage.
• Tolerance for contradictory and conflicting goals.
• Primary control strategies: Actively changing the environment to accomplish goals.