Self And Idenity Flashcards
Naritive identity
An internalized and evolving story of the self designed of temporal unity and purpose
Redemptive narratives
Life stories that affirm the transformation from suffering to enhanced status or state. American culture redemptive life stories
Reflexivity
The idea that the self reflects back upon itself that the I (the knower the subject) encounters the me(the known the object)
Self as autobiographical author
The sense of the self as a storyteller who reconstructs the past and imagines the future in order to articulate an intergrative narrative that provides life with some measure of temporal continuity and purpose
Self as a motivated agent
The sense of the self as an intentional force that strives to achieve goals plans values projects and the like
Self as social actor
The sense of the self as an embodied actor whose social performances maybe construed in terms of more or less consistant self ascribed traits and social roles
Self esteem
The extent to which a person feels that he or she is worthy and good
The age 5 to 7 shift
Cognitive and social changes that occur in the early elementary school years that result in the child’s devloping a more purposeful planful and goal directed approach to life
The I
The self as the knower
The me
The self as known
Theory of mind
Emerging around age four the child’s understanding that other people have minds in which are located desires and beliefs and that desires and beliefs thereby motivate behavior
Autobiographical reasoning
The ability typically developed in adolescence to derive substantive conclusions about the self from analyzing ones own personable experiences
