Week 24 #1 Flashcards
Autobiographical reasoning
The ability, typically developed in adolescence, to derive substantive conclusions about the self from analyzing one’s own personal experiences
Ego
observing outside reality, engaging in rational thought, and coping with the competing demands of inner desires and moral standards
Identity
- a developmental task for late adolescence and young adulthood
- exploring alternative roles, values, goals, and relationships
Narrative identity
when people craft self-defining stories that reconstruct the past and imagine the future to explain how the person came to be the person that he or she is becoming
Reflexivity
The idea that the self reflects back upon itself; that the I (the knower, the subject) encounters the Me (the known, the object)
Redemptive narratives
Life stories that affirm the transformation from suffering to an enhanced status or state
Self as autobiographical author
The sense of the self as a storyteller who reconstructs the past and imagines the future to articulate an integrative narrative that provides life with some measure of temporal continuity and purpose
self-esteem
- The extent to which a person feels that he or she is worthy and good.
- determined by the success or failure that the motivated agent experiences in pursuit of valued goals
Self as motivated agent
the sense of the self as an intentional force that strives to achieve goals, plans, values and projects
Self as social actor
The sense of the self as an embodied actor whose social performances may be construed in terms of more or less consistent self-ascribed traits and social roles
The Age 5-to-7 Shift
Cognitive and social changes that occur in the early elementary school years that result in the child’s developing a more purposeful, planful, and goal-directed approach to life, setting the stage for the emergence of the self as a motivated agent.
The “I”
The self as knower, the sense of the self as a subject who encounters itself (the me)
The “Me”
The self as known, the sense of the self as the object or target of the I’s knowledge and work
Theory of mind
- Emerging around the age of 4
- The human capacity to understand minds, a capacity that is made up of a collection of concepts and processes
Confidante
A trusted person with whom secrets and vulnerabilities can be shared