W11 Chapter 10.2 The Narrating Mind

Question 1

According to the narrative perspective, what is the fundamental way of expressing ourselves to others?

Answer 1

Storytelling

Question 2

How do stories differ from objective retelling?

Answer 2

Known as a “narrative truth”, stories are more about feeling than facts

Question 3

How is the human Brian design to construe experience?

Answer 3

In narrative terms

Question 4

Damasks said that human consciousness is a matter of mentally taking on the position of what?

Answer 4

A narrator

Question 5

What 2 ways have human beings evolved to understand the world?

Answer 5

1. The paradigmatic mode
2. The narrative mode

Question 6

What is the paradigmatic mode?

Answer 6

When we seek to understand our experience in terms of reasoned analyses, logical proofs and empirical observation

Question 7

What type of relationship is sought in the paradigmatic mode?

Answer 7

Cause and effect relationships

Question 8

What is the narrative mode?

Answer 8

The narrative mode is concerned with stories and events are explained in terms of human actors striving to do things over time.